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Google makes major donation of $1.3 million to IMC²

January 25, 2024

On January 25, Google.org took an important step by announcing a $1.3 million grant to Fondation et Alumni de Polytechnique Montréal in support of the Multidisciplinary Institute for Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience (IMC2).

Polytechnique Montréal’s expertise positions IMC² at the heart of two projects supported by the National Cybersecurity Consortium

November 27, 2023

Professor Frédéric Cuppens leads a pan-Canadian cybersecurity training program project aimed at young cyber-enterprises and entrepreneurship successors, while Assistant Professor Mohammad Hamdaqa collaborates on a project designing a backup system combining data deduplication and encryption.

GEDAI Chair created to tackle insider threats

October 19, 2023

By initiating the GEDAI (pronounced “JEDI”), the Institutional Chair on the Detection, Analysis and Automated Management of Internal Breaches and Anomalies, Polytechnique Montréal intends to attack the problem of insider threats, which, when it comes to cybersecurity, are at least as serious as external ones.

IMC2 celebrates its launch with an inaugural event at Polytechnique Montréal

October 18, 2023

IMC2‘s inaugural event brought together, for an afternoon, nearly 200 stakeholders from the cybersecurity and cyber resilience fields, including participants from both academia and industry.

Polytechnique Montréal, Université de Montréal and HEC Montréal launch the Multidisciplinary Institute for Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience (IMC²)

May 18, 2023

With an initial pool of 44 professors and their research teams, IMC2 will provide governments, citizens and businesses in Québec and the rest of Canada with leading-edge expertise in the form of research projects, training of an emerging generation with meaningful skills, innovation and knowledge sharing, and support for public policy-making.