Making a Strategic Commitment to Canada

Canada’s own intelligence services have been direct about what is happening across the threat landscape. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security’s National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025–2026 names the People’s Republic of China as the most sophisticated and active state-sponsored cyber threat Canada faces today. 

In fact, analysts have confirmed PRC intrusions across at least 20 Canadian federal government networks over the past five years, with ongoing targeting of financial institutions, critical infrastructure, and innovation sectors. They have further identified  Russia pre-positioning threats in Canadian systems and critical infrastructure. These are not theoretical risks. They are documented, ongoing, and accelerating.

To address these growing cyber challenges, Armadin is establishing a formal presence (Armadin Canada, Inc.) in the Canadian market, helping security leaders protect Canada’s most targeted institutions.

A Ramp-Up in Regulation

The good news on the ground is that the Canadian regulatory response is catching up to these emerging threats. OSFI B-13 holds federally regulated financial institutions to explicit expectations around cyber risk management and resilience testing. Bill C-26, now advancing through the Senate as C-8, will impose mandatory cybersecurity programs, 72-hour incident reporting, and supply chain oversight obligations on operators across finance, energy, telecom, and transportation. 

Although this compliance framework is becoming enforceable, regulation can only require a program. It cannot answer the question every CISO is ultimately accountable for answering: are we secure?

Most security programs have been built on the right foundation. Governance structures, qualified teams, investments in tooling, and a genuine seriousness about regulatory obligations. However, these security programs have traditionally lacked one critical component: proof.

Not a score. Not a risk model or theoretical analysis. They have lacked validated evidence of what a real adversary would actually exploit, today, in a given environment. That gap is where the real threat resides.

The Need to Proactively Counter AI-Driven Threats

Agentic AI has made that gap even harder to ignore. The same capabilities that make AI productive in the hands of defenders have narrowed the skills gap for attackers, lowered the cost of sophisticated intrusions, and compressed the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation.

The assumption-based security posture that may have been adequate just two years ago is no longer adequate. When attacks operate at machine speed, the distance between what you believe about your security and what is actually exploitable is the same distance an adversary can exploit.

The Armadin platform was specifically built to close that gap. It deploys a swarm of specialized AI agents that reason, plan, and adapt continuously across an organization’s full attack surface, producing validated kill chains that show exactly what an adversary could exploit. Not periodic assessments or isolated findings. Instead, you get continuous, agentic proof of exploitable risk, validated by Armadin’s red team before it can be exploited.

A Strategic Investment in Canada

Establishing Armadin Canada Inc. is the first formal step in building the type of security presence Canadian organizations deserve. Armadin CEO Kevin Mandia explains, “Canadian organizations are operating under the same threat landscape as every major enterprise we work with in the US. They are wondering if they are ready for the AI-led threat landscape. They are also recognizing that the future of cyber defense will be far more autonomous than today, and that Armadin is a necessity to ensure an organization's cyber defense is ready and effective.”

This approach is not Armadin simply extending its US market into Canada. This is a local commitment to Canadian clients and partners, engaging with enterprise and government security leaders across the country, including a planned CISO dinner May 27 in Toronto. 

If you are interested in attending this dinner on May 27 hosted by Greg Davison, Managing Director, Canada, and Evan Peña, Founder and Chief Offensive Security Officer, please register here.  

If you are part of a Canadian organization that is ready to move from risk assumption to evidence, be sure to request a briefing.