A/70/172 following areas would benefit from further work and the following concrete measures: • Enhancing States’ understanding of how existing international law and norms for the rules of conduct for States apply to cyberspace, particularly the international legal framework that applies to cyberoperations that do not rise to the threshold of an armed attack • Defining norms or additional measures of self-restraint or mutual assistance, particularly the idea to establish special normative protection for certain systems and networks, including critical infrastructure providing essential civilian services, civilian incident response structures and certain critical components of the global Internet • Strengthening the legal, diplomatic and policy capacity and the exchange of best practises in the field of international peace and security in cyberspace. The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise, which was launched in The Hague during the fourth Global Conference on Cyberspace, can play an important role in this respect As the Internet has become a strategic asset for all of us, broad international discussion on those topics is needed. The Netherlands will remain actively involved in helping to promote that dialogue. The full text of the submission by the Netherlands can be found at www.un.org/disarmament/topics/informationsecurity/. Panama [Original: Spanish] [3 June 2015] Information and communications technologies today are expanding rapidly. As a result, technology and communications are gradually becoming a more accessible part of the daily life of all Panamanians. It is a fact that our lives are now linked to these developments in how communications are sent and how information is processed. The Government of Panama has acted in accordance with this trend, adapting it to the specific needs of this security agency. For that reason, it has been carrying out technological improvements to establish more efficient and secure connectivity. As part of these improvements, the Government of Panama has gradually been developing a communications implementation plan, which includes network, security and telephony elements. These elements comply with international standards, as confirmed with their manufacturers. The Government of Panama protects the integrity of its information in the area of the Internet, data and telephony by means of infrastructure based on internal firewall platforms and through connection with the national multiservices network. The Government of Panama uses secure firewall-mediated data sessions in order to ensure the confidentiality and protection of information. 8/14 15-12333