Leaders in advanced border control solutions
CBN helps governments balance security and accessibility by protecting borders while enabling smooth travel. With global mobility, national security, and economic growth at stake, our trusted, award-winning end-to-end solutions use advanced surveillance, identity verification, and data integration to streamline border crossings, ensure compliance, and reinforce sovereignty.
Real-world impact of Border Security
Border management solutions
Use case:
Smarter border control through integrated, real-time systems
CBN delivers secure and centralized border management platforms that enable governments to monitor, screen, and verify all travellers across air, land, and sea entry points. These solutions support fast border crossings while also deterring unlawful activity.
Key features:
- Real-time biometric verification
- Integrated traveller risk assessments
- Centralized control and monitoring
- Configurable to local policies and legal frameworks
- Modular and scalable platform design
- Supporting land, air, and sea borders
Passport solutions
Use case:
Trusted identity secured for global travel
CBN designs, manufactures, and supports International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) compliant passports that integrate the latest innovations in design, printing, biometrics, and smart card technology. Our solutions are continually evolving to exceed international standards and ensure secure and efficient border management, while preserving the passport as a symbol of national pride.
Key features:
- ICAO-compliant design and data structure
- Embedded security to prevent forgery and tampering
- Durable materials and polycarbonate data pages
- Custom holograms and watermark features
- Secure production facilities
- Full issuance and inventory management system
eVisa solutions
Use case:
Faster and safer entry through digital travel authorization
CBN’s customizable eVisa platform helps governments modernize how they manage visitor access. As a fully digital alternative to traditional paper visas, eVisas allow travellers to apply online from anywhere in the world. Once approved, the visa is electronically linked to the traveller’s passport and automatically appears when scanned at the border, streamlining entry and improving efficiency at the point of arrival.
Key features:
- Online user application
- Risk-based applicant screening
- Integration with border systems for seamless enforcement
- Scalable for tourism, business, and transit visas
Why choose CBN for Border Security?
Trusted innovation built on proven experience
Border security is highly complex, but CBN brings unmatched experience and scalability to deliver solutions governments can trust now and into the future.
- 80+ secure document and issuance systems worldwide
- Passport solutions trusted by over 35 countries
- Canada’s official passport provider for 45+ years
- Active contributors to ICAO security standards
Our people and principles in action
Meet the experts behind our Border Security solutions
“We’re not just developing travel and mobility systems, we’re helping nations welcome visitors, protect their borders, and uphold the integrity of international travel. We take this responsibility very seriously and this sense of purpose drives everything that we do.”
— Dwight MacManus, Vice President & GM, Border Security
Our approach to meaningful partnerships
CBN helps governments strengthen border security while enabling safe, efficient travel. We deliver integrated solutions such as digital visa systems, secure documents, and real-time border control platforms. More than one-time solutions, we act as a long-term partner, ensuring your border infrastructure stays secure, adaptive, and aligned with evolving global standards.
Below is our proven four-step framework for delivering advanced border security solutions:
Discover
We collaborate closely with you to understand your border environment, security objectives, and operational needs, laying the foundation for a scalable, policy-aligned solution.
Design
Our team designs secure interoperable systems tailored to your specific entry and exit protocols, documentation processes, and risk assessment strategies, whether digital, physical, or both.
Deliver
We oversee every step of system and/or document integration, infrastructure setup, and testing, ensuring seamless coordination across airports, seaports and land borders.
Support
CBN provides long-term support, updates, and training to keep your systems running smoothly and securely as jurisdictional needs and technologies evolve.
Client success story
Caribbean Innovation: Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) steps into the future
Our Border Security team has delivered a win in the Caribbean. Twenty brand-new immigration kiosks are now live in Saint Lucia and Grenada, marking a major step forward in modernizing passenger processing.
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Help power the systems the world trusts
At CBN, your work matters. Whether you’re building secure software, designing trusted ID systems, or printing the currency people use every day, every role here contributes to something bigger.
We’re driven by purpose, grounded in principle, and united by the impact we make around the world. If you’re looking for a career where integrity, innovation, and real-world responsibility come together, you’ll find it at CBN.
CBN is an Ottawa institution with global impact. It’s inspiring to see how our team lives CBN’s values of reason, integrity, honesty, independence, justice, productivity, and pride and how these values resonate with partners.”Meredith Anglin
Executive Director, Currency
I value the supportive relationships with my colleagues, and the flexibility to work from home helps me maintain balance. CBN’s growth opportunities and benefits make it
a rewarding place to work.”Sonny Teja
Payroll Manager
CBN stands out through its deep commitment to being a values-based company. Our values guide daily conversations, influence decisions in the boardroom, and shape the environment we work in.”Tim McIntyre
Senior Director, Excise Control
Why work at CBN?
Purpose-driven work
At CBN, your work helps protect identities, secures borders, and supports safer, more connected communities. Whether you’re in software, manufacturing, or operations, every role contributes to real-world impact.
Guided by values that matter
Our seven core principles, Reason, Integrity, Honesty, Independence, Justice, Productivity, and Pride, aren’t just words on a wall. They guide how we make decisions, lead teams, and build careers.
Global talent & global reach
Our people and partners are based across the world, reflecting the international scale of the customers we serve. At CBN, you’ll collaborate across borders to deliver secure, high-performance solutions with global impact.
Professional growth & personal well-being
We invest in your future with competitive compensation, a robust pension plan, and health benefits designed to support both you and your loved ones. That’s why so many of our team members build fulfilling, decades-long careers here.
Great work starts with great people
At CBN, we’re looking for people who care about doing the right thing and want to build a career that makes a real difference.
Industry recognized
& trusted by clients
100+ secure government ID and issuance programs delivered globally
250+ partnerships with government agencies and institutions
Millions of secure identity documents produced annually
Globally recognized as a world leader
From national lotteries to border security, more than 100 governments and institutions around the world rely on CBN to deliver secure, high-impact solutions. Our commitment to innovation, integrity,
and excellence has earned us global recognition and the enduring trust of our clients.