INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK At the national level, different cybersecurity efforts are underway in public and private institutions, as well as in technical and academic communities and civil society. The Government of the Republic, in the framework of the Interministerial Commission for the Development of Electronic Government (CIDGE, in Spanish)24, unanimously adopted the creation of the Subcommittee of Cybersecurity in October 2017, which is chaired by the Secretariat of the Interior (SEGOB, in Spanish) through the National Commission for Security (CNS, in Spanish), (Federal Police/Scientific Division). Among the members of this subcommittee are various agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration. The purpose is for the National Cybersecurity Strategy to have a comprehensive, holistic and cross-cutting development from the Federal Executive and to enable connection with different interested stakeholders, that is to say: civil society, private sector, technical and academic communities and public institutions of the different powers and of the different government areas, including any autonomous public institution. Among other tasks, the Cybersecurity Subcommittee will be responsible for: ● ● Approving and publicizing the Strategy Following up and coordinating the implementation of the ENCS in collaboration with the different Federal Public Administration (APF, in Spanish) agencies and entities 24 In accordance with Article Three, Section III and Nineteenth of the Agreement, which aims to create the Interministerial Commission for the Development of Electronic Government on a permanent basis, published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on December 9, 2005, and the Third Agreement of the Minutes of the 18th Ordinary Session of the Interministerial Commission for the Development of Electronic Government, of October 11, 2017, the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity was created, comprising the following authorities: 1. The Scientific Division of the Federal Police, presiding. 2. The Head of the Technological Innovation and Strategy Unit of the Office of the President of the Republic. 3. The Digital Government Unit of the Ministry of Public Administration, and 4. The holders of the Information and Communications Technology Units of the Ministries of the Interior, Economy, Education, and Finance and Public Credit, as well as the head of the Information Technology and Communications Unit of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic. The Cybersecurity Subcommittee has the following objectives: (i) To articulate the efforts of the Federal Executive and create the general criteria for all the divisions and entities of the Federal Public Administration to contribute to the generation of the ENCS and follow up on it through general and specific actions to develop throughout the administration; (ii) To promote the participation and collaboration of civil society, private sector, academia, technical community and international organizations in the field of cybersecurity; establish the ENCS Implementation Plan, and (iii) To propose the institutional strengthening of the entity responsible for following up on the ENCS. The Cybersecurity Subcommittee has the following permanent guests: SEDENA, SEMAR, SAT, CNBV, PROFECO, CONDUSEF, IPN, CONACYT, CENACE, SRE, SSA, STCNS-OPR, and SE-SIPINNA.