A/69/112 Foreign Affairs coordinates the foreign policy measures relevant for cybersecurity. Where appropriate, the conclusion of bilateral or international agreements will be taken into consideration. Nationally, a steering group is developing an implementation plan to carry out the horizontal measures laid down in the Austrian Cybersecurity Strategy. The competent bodies are responsible for implementing these measures within their respective mandates, with coordination by the steering group. Based on the Austrian Cybersecurity Strategy, they will develop substrategies for their sphere of responsibilities. The ministries represented in the steering group are tasked to submit an implementation plan to the Federal Government biannually. The preparation of the plan will be accompanied by a review of the Austrian Cybersecurity Strategy, to be revised and updated if necessary. Colombia [Original: Spanish] [23 May 2014] General appreciation of the issues of information security In recent years, significant progress has been achieved in developing and applying information and communication technology, and this has led to major changes and benefits that have made a considerable contribution to the development of many countries, while promoting increased international cooperation for the dissemination of information. Nevertheless, these technological advances have also highlighted deep concerns about the possibility that those advances could be used to undermine international stability and security, and adversely affect the integrity of States’ infrastructure, with a resulting reduction in their civil and military security. In this context, the use of new technologies to generate computer threats, and the existing threat of crime in cyberspace, are matters of great concern and of the utmost national importance for Colombia. It is therefore imperative for Colombia to define policies and strategies to prevent information technology from being used for terrorist or criminal purposes. Efforts made at the national level to strengthen information security and promote international cooperation Legislative and institutional responses In 2005 Colombia applied the ISO 27001 standard, conceived as a management system that set quality standards for information security in national entities, and advocated safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity and availability! of information. 1 Confidentiality: preventing information from being used by unauthorized individuals or processes. Integrity: safeguarding the accuracy and completeness of anything of value to an organization. Availability: ensuring that information is accessible and usable on demand by authorized entities. 4/18 14-56479