A/75/123 pleased to inform the Secretary-General of its views and assessments on the following questions: • Efforts taken at the national level to strengthen information security and promote international cooperation. • The content of the concepts mentioned in the reports of the Group of Governmental Experts. Introduction Colombia is generally in favour of a free, open and secure digital environment in which net neutrality is ensured, and thus believes that it is important to continue to give priority to capacity-building and cooperation based on international law and existing norms and agreements, as well as to the implementation of confidence building measures in cyberspace. Colombia has made significant efforts in the field of cybernetics by strengthening inter-agency coordination at the highest level in order to ensure a more secure cyberspace. Pursuant to the public policy on digital security adopted in 2016, the national Government established the Digital Security Committee, in which relevant entities participate, and which coordinates efforts to address potential national cybersecurity crises. The Committee is led by a national coordinator, who is currently the Presidential Adviser for Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation. The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology serves as its technical secretariat. These bodies coordinate efforts to examine and update policies and laws related to digital security, review the international agenda and ensure national defence and security in the digital environment, in order to guide activities aimed at mitigating and countering cyberattacks, protecting the country’s critical infrastructure and strengthening human, technical, technological and physical capacities, as indicated below: • Computer Emergency Response Group of Colombia. A body within the Ministry of Defence whose purpose is to coordinate the activities necessary to protect critical State infrastructure against cyb ersecurity emergencies which threaten or undermine national security and defence. It is responsible for responding to computer security incidents. • Joint Cyber Command of the national military forces. A supervisory body responsible for directing, planning, coordinating, integrating, implementing and synchronizing joint cyberoperations. It is tasked with implementing cyberdefence measures and with conducting military cyberoperations at the strategic level in order to ensure national secur ity and defence in cyberspace, including coordination concerning critical infrastructure. • Cybersecurity Capacities Centre of Colombia of the Cyber Police Centre. A division within the Directorate for Criminal Investigation and the International Criminal Police Organization of the National Police which is responsible for developing criminal investigation strategies, programmes and projects to ensure digital security, cybersecurity and the protection of the national population’s information and data circulating in cyberspace. • Computer security incident response team. Colombia has governmental, financial, sectoral and private response teams. At the regional level, within the framework of the Organization of American States (OAS), Colombia is a member of the hemispheric network of computer security incident response 14/84 20-08285

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