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enterprises). It has also established partnerships with the private sector and has
engaged in international cooperation.
• The Ministry of Education has also developed diploma courses benefiting 2,216
teachers, and has incorporated the digital security strategy into the Digital
Learning project for primary, basic and secondary school students, benefiting
4,093 students, including on the “Colombia Learns” (Colombia Aprende) portal,
with more than 30 pieces of content.
In response to the recommendation that States should not knowingly allow their
territory to be used for internationally wrongful acts using ICTs, the Government of
Colombia has implemented the activities described below.
• The national digital trust and security policy (National Council for Economic
and Social Policy document No. 3995/2020) established, as a coordination and
governance mechanism, the role of national coordinator, performed by the
President’s Office of Economic and Digital Transformation A dvisers, and the
Digital Security Committee, a collegiate body composed of entities involved in
promoting digital security whose purpose is to consider specific issues
pertaining to digital security at strategic levels, within the areas covered by its
mandate: (1) digital security policy and laws; (2) protection and defence of the
national critical cyberinfrastructure; (3) digital security risk management;
(4) crises and cyberthreat monitoring; (5) personal data protection;
(6) international digital security issues; and (7) strategic communications for
digital security.
• The Government has established a unified command post for cybersecurity in
order to ensure the security and integrity of government technological
infrastructure and websites during national holidays, elections and other
milestone events. The post’s objectives are: (i) to protect citizens and the
Government against cyberthreats; (ii) to prevent and anticipate cyberthreats and
conduct judicial investigations; (iii) to address cybersecurity in cidents; (iv) to
ensure the stability of governmental and institutional bodies; and (v) to
strengthen software. The Government has also established action protocols to
respond to possible attacks, such as distributed denial-of-service attacks on web
portals (DDOS), web vulnerabilities and fake news.
• The Government has carried out activities in coordination with the national
Senate, including training in the development of best practices for the use of
virtual platforms.
With regard to the best ways to cooperate to exchange information, provide
mutual assistance, prosecute terrorist and criminal use of ICTs and implement other
cooperative measures to address such threats, on 16 March 2020, Colombia acceded
to the Convention on Cybercrime, adopted in Budap est in 2001, and brought it into
force on 1 July 2020. Efforts to implement the Convention are currently under way.
Colombia has taken appropriate measures to protect critical infrastructure from
ICT threats by strengthening the Government’s computer security incident response
team in order to protect public institutions. Through that initiative, Colombia aims to
develop a comprehensive solution to ensure that the Government’s computer security
incident response team provides stronger and more efficient services to State entities,
enhancing the team’s impact throughout the country by developing IT and physical
infrastructure and human talent and guaranteeing 24/7 service.
Colombia has also proposed a number of initiatives, including the preparation
of a current assessment and a plan for the continuous improvement of its operational,
administrative, human and scientific capacities and technological infrastructure, in
order to leverage resources to strengthen those entities’ digital security capacities.
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