True North Strategic Review is proud to welcome Zighra as a sponsor — an Ottawa-based company pioneering what may be the most consequential frontier in modern defence: the security of identity itself.
With over a decade of cutting-edge R&D, Zighra's AI platform has been battle-tested across national security, defence, and critical infrastructure domains, backed by 14 or more granted patents in behavioural AI, sensor fusion, and cybersecurity. Their flagship platforms — SilentEdge and DeepSense — go far beyond traditional authentication, delivering real-time cyber and electronic defence using sensor fusion and behavioural AI to detect and neutralize emerging threats at machine speed.
Zighra has secured follow-on contracts and sales worth more than $6 million with federal departments, including the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Coast Guard — achievements that validate both the performance of their technology and the Government of Canada's confidence in it. Their GenesysInsights platform is already being used to detect GPS jamming and spoofing in Canada's maritime domain, enhancing the Coast Guard's ability to detect and respond to maritime threats.
What sets Zighra apart is not just what their AI does, but how it does it. Unlike traditional AI systems that act as black boxes, Zighra's platforms ensure that all AI-driven decisions can be understood and trusted by human operators — a critical distinction in high-stakes defence environments where accountability is not optional.
As adversaries grow more sophisticated and the electromagnetic and cyber domains grow more contested, Zighra is building the operating system Canada needs to defend them.