Protecting Specified Information is of paramount importance to Government of Canada (GC) departments and agencies and can directly impact the GC’s ability to successfully conduct its essential missions and functions. This publication provides GC departments and agencies with recommended security requirements for protecting the confidentiality of specified information when it resides in non-GC systems and organizations. These requirements apply to the components of non-GC systems that handle, process, store or transmit CI, or that provide protection for such components. The security requirements are intended for use by GC departments and agencies in contractual vehicles or other agreements established between those departments and agencies and non-GC organizations.