Public Stakeholders’ Roles and Mandates MINISTRY OF INTERIOR National Public Security Authority Law enforcement and public order, public rescue and civil protection, contrast to threats that involve or stem from cyberspace and that affect the population, the institutions, the firms or business continuity of the Government. • Ensures, through the Public Security Department, the prevention and the contrast of cybercrime; the exclusive or prominent means to execute those crimes has been the distorted use of the computer systems or of the ICT tools; • Guarantees, through the Postal and Communication Police, the integrity and the correct functioning of the ICT network, here included the protection of critical ICT infrastructures (through the National Anti-crime Computer Centre for the Protection of Critical Infrastructure - CNAIPIC), the prevention and the contrast of computer attacks to strategic assets of the country, the security and reliability of telecommunication services, the hindering of online child pornography and of crimes affecting means of payment and copyright whenever • Contributes to the prevention and hindering of terrorist activities and of support to terrorism executed by means of computer systems and ICT networks; • Ensures preventive and hindering activities against the wider range of cybercrimes; • Preempts cybercrime by promoting awareness-raising campaigns to inform citizens about cybersecurity threats. 35