CYBERCRIMES’ ESTIMATED COST IS MORE THAN THAT OF COCAINE, HEROIN AND MARIJUANA TRAFFICKING PUT TOGETHER. EXISTING CYBER SECURITY RELATED EFFORTS A lack of understanding of the mandates of the various players within this sphere can lead to stove-piped approaches resulting in conflicting legal requirements and friction between various organizations and their cyber security functions and capabilities18. This Strategy therefore recognizes that delineating and correlating the roles and activities of the various players is of utmost importance. Our current reality regarding cyber security activities include: ¡¡Revision of the Cybercrimes Act, 2010 Jamaica’s Cybercrimes Act (‘the Act’) was promulgated on March 17, 2010 to address computer specific offences such as unauthorized interception, unauthorized modification of computer program or data and unauthorized access to any program or data held in a computer. The Act requires that its provisions be reviewed by a Joint Select Committee (JSC) of the Houses of Parliament after the expiration of two years from the date of its commencement19. An eleven member JSC was established in January 2013 to consider and report on the operation of the Act. The recommendations made by the Committee for amendments to the Act have been adopted by the Houses of Parliament and include increasing the penalties for the offences under the Act, as well as, the criminalization of actions prejudicing investigations and activities such as computer related fraud, forgery and malicious communication. Additionally, provision will be made for the forfeiture of computer material which is the subject matter of an offence in the event that the person is convicted of the said offence. 13 National Cyber Security Strategy Government of Jamaica