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12.
The importance of bolstering the security and the capacity for recoveryof critical information
and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure in connection with cyberspace risks, with
particular emphasis on critical government institutions and other public and private sectors that
are critical for national security, includingdigital government, health, energy, financial,
telecommunications, and transportation systems and others, through the use of cyber and
physical measures;
13.
The importance for all the member to create and/or strengthen specialized units within their
relevant law enforcement agencies for the prevention and investigationof cibersecurity
incidents;
14.
Their willingness to provide assistance and training for improving security in the use of
information and communications technologies (ICTs), and to share their best technical, legal,
and administrative practices to that end;
15.
The need to establish procedures for mutual assistance when responding to incidents, in
addressing short-term network security problems, and provide collaboration with the reciprocal
requests made by the member countries in order to investigate and prosecute crime related to
terrorist acts, including procedures for expediting that assistance;
16.
The importance of facilitating crossborder cooperation to address basic infrastructure
vulnerabilities that transcend national borders;
17.
To request that the CICTE Secretariat, within its competencies continue its work of
strengtheningmember state’ capacity to prevent, respond and deal with the use of information
and communications technologies (ICTs) for terrorist while respecting human rights together
with its work to raise internet users’ awareness regarding risks in cyberspace;
18.
Their willingness to create and/or strengthen awareness programs and campaigns, targeting in
particular those groups that are most vulnerable to cybercrime;
19.
The need for the CICTE Secretariat to continue, within its competencies, developing the
member states’capacity, that so request it, to fight terrorist incidents or actsincluding initiatives
for prevention, responding to cyber incidents, carrying out investigations and evidence analysis,
international cooperation in response and investigation, and other activities that will serve to
strengthen the capacity of the agencies responsible for law enforcement and responding to cyber
incidents in the Americas;
20.
The need for the CICTE Secretariat, within its competencies, , in accordance with the 2004
Comprehensive Inter-American Cybersecurity Strategy (the 2004 Strategy and its Appendix A)
to continue developing cooperation mechanisms with other international agencies and
organizations in order to take coordinated actions for the protection and use of cyberspace;
21.
Their willingness to continue developing comprehensive national cybersecurity strategies and to
involve all relevant actors and stakeholders in their development and implantation, including,
the private sector, academia, the technical community and civil society among others;