Director General, Cyber Defence and IT Security Operations
Eric Belzile started his career in the Public Service at Statistics Canada in 1989. Over the years, he occupied various positions with increasing levels of responsibility covering System Development and IT Infrastructure Service Management. Before his transfer to Shared Services Canada (SSC), he was responsible for all IT Infrastructure Services at Statistics Canada, delivering the services as well as defining strategic plans for their evolution.
Currently, with SSC, he occupies the position of Director General, Cyber Defence and IT Security Operations. He is responsible for the SSC Security Operations Center (SOC), the Government of Canada Computer Incident Response Team (GC-CIRT) and the Vulnerability Management Program. These services work together to prevent, detect, respond, and recover from cyber incidents across the Government of Canada.
Eric holds a Bachelor’s degree in Informatics-Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Management.