APPENDIX II PCC.I/RES. 49 (IV-04)8/ CYBERSECURITY The IV Meeting of the Permanent Consultative Committee I: Telecommunication Standardization, RECOGNIZING: a) That ensuring the safety and security of networked information systems (cybersecurity) is a priority item for our hemisphere; b) That ubiquitous and secure information networks play an important role for the critical infrastructure of all OAS Member States, their economies and their societies; and c) That the next generation networks (NGNs) presently being designed and standardized can take into account technologies and techniques to ensure their robustness and harden their resilience to cyber attacks, TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION: a) That secure and efficient operation of the global telecommunications infrastructure is crucial to the welfare and development of all sectors of the economy and therefore is of vital interest to both governments and the private sector; and b) The increasingly frequent and insidious number of cyber attacks on networks, institutions and users, which is causing all kinds of harm, especially those moral, economic and financial, CONSIDERING: 8 . a) That CITEL, CICTE (the Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism of the OAS) and REMJA (the Meeting of Justice Ministers or Attorneys General of the Americas) are working towards the development of a hemispheric-wide strategy for cybersecurity, as determined by the OAS General Assembly in Resolution AG/RES.1939(XXXIII-O/03); b) The workshop held jointly by the Working Group on Advanced Network Technologies and Services and the Working Group on Standards Coordination on cybersecurity at the IV PCC.I Meeting in Quito, Ecuador, addressed the key issues of cybersecurity as related to CITEL; and c) The important commitments undertaken by the Heads of State and Government of the Region, as expressed in the Nuevo Leon Declaration, including the CCP.I-TEL/doc.427/04 rev. 2.