Achieve Canada CCSPA (Bill C-8) compliance with Tenable One OT Exposure

Canada’s Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act (CCSPA)—widely known as Bill C-8–ends the voluntary era of critical infrastructure cybersecurity. Designated operators across banking, energy and power, telecommunications, nuclear systems, and transportation face strict 72-hour incident reporting windows and daily liabilities up to $15M CAD. Relying on traditional security approaches leaves you with massive blind spots across converged IT/OT networks that can lead to compliance failures. Tenable One OT Exposure bridges this gap, delivering the unified visibility, predictive prioritization, and configuration control needed to guarantee audit readiness and continuous uptime.

A clear mandate

Canada's Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act (CCSPA) permanently shifts the legal burden of proof onto infrastructure operators. Under the legislation, a security alert is not enough; you must report the precise technical blast radius, affected sub-components, and real-time operational impacts of a breach to the CSE within 72 hours of detection.

Failing to meet these standards carries severe operational and financial risks, with corporate Administrative Monetary Penalties (AMPs) reaching up to $15 million CAD per violation, per day, alongside direct personal liability for directors and officers. Tenable One OT Exposure gives response teams the real-time telemetry and initial device enrichment required to log, investigate, and report incidents instantly.

Eliminate blind spots with hybrid discovery

Relying purely on passive network monitoring leaves a massive gap in your compliance architecture. Niche passive tools only detect assets that are actively communicating on the network, missing the dormant assets and shadow IT that attackers target.

Tenable's patented Hybrid Discovery approach combines continuous passive monitoring with vendor-approved Safe Active Querying. By communicating with devices via their native industrial protocols, Tenable safely uncovers up to 40% more assets—including dormant PLCs and hidden IT assets in industrial zones—without ever threatening system safety or operational uptime.

Ensure true operational resilience

Modern infrastructure frameworks and federal auditors focus heavily on operational resilience: your proven technical capability to continuously monitor your environment for threats and vulnerabilities, as well as your ability to return a disrupted system to safety. Tenable One OT Exposure delivers end-to-end configuration control and security monitoring for even the most complex or distributed environments.

Simplify compliance with predictive prioritization

Meeting Bill C-8 standards is fundamentally a data challenge. Drowning your engineering and security teams in thousands of uncontextualized alerts leads to alert fatigue and compliance gaps. Our predictive prioritization capabilities use advanced data science and threat intelligence to filter out the noise. By contextually combining real-world vulnerability exploitability with the exact operational criticality of the asset to your process, Tenable isolates the small fraction of flaws that actually threaten safety. This ensures your teams focus on what matters most, moving your posture from discovery to remediation in hours rather than weeks.