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Voluntary confidence-building measures
Colombia is deeply committed to continuing to develop and adopt measures to
enhance confidence and security in cyberspace. Relevant work has been done at the
regional level through OAS.
In April 2017, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and the United States led the
adoption of the resolution on the establishment of a working group on cooperation
and confidence-building measures in cyberspace in the Inter-American Committee
against Terrorism of OAS. In February 2018, Colombia was elected Chair of the
working group. At the group’s second meeting, which took place in Chile in April
2019, Chile succeeded Colombia as Chair.
The confidence-building measures adopted by OAS in the area of cybersecurity
are as follows:
1.
Provide information on national cybersecurity policies, such as national
strategies, white papers, legal frameworks and other documents that each member
State considers relevant;
2.
Identify a national point of contact at the policy level able to discuss the
implications of hemispheric cyberthreats;
3.
Designate points of contact, in the event that none exist, within ministrie s
of foreign affairs, with the purpose of facilitating the work on international
cooperation and dialogue in cybersecurity and cyberspace;
4.
Develop and strengthen capacity-building through activities such as
seminars, conferences, workshops on cyberdiplomacy for public and private sector
officials;
5.
Foster the inclusion of subjects related to cybersecurity and cyberspace
into training courses for diplomats and officials of ministries of foreign affairs and
other government agencies;
6.
Foster cooperation and the exchange of best practices related to
cyberdiplomacy, cybersecurity and cyberspace through the establishment of working
groups, other dialogue mechanisms and the signing of agreements among States.
In particular, the confidence-building measures related to cyberdiplomacy
represent an important contribution that is being made through OAS.
Through cyberdiplomacy, it is possible to identify ways to address cybersecurity
challenges. This not only requires promoting the active participation of St ates in
international debates on cybersecurity, an objective which, in turn, involves providing
relevant training to diplomatic officials, but also requires ensuring the active
participation of experts in multilateral forums.
Consideration should be given to promoting regular institutional dialogue with
broad participation, and to expanding and supporting practices in cooperation among
computer emergency response teams and cybersecurity incident response teams.
With respect to the proposed establishment of a comprehensive list of points of
contact, points of contact should be designated at different levels, for example, one
point of contact at the political and diplomatic level, and others at the technical level
(policymakers, offices of attorneys general, computer emergency response teams,
etc.).
It will be important to determine who will manage information and ensure that
it is kept up to date. The development of a protocol for clear and open management
of information, including databases, should be con sidered.
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