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pleased to inform the Secretary-General of its views and assessments on the following
questions:
• Efforts taken at the national level to strengthen information security and
promote international cooperation.
• The content of the concepts mentioned in the reports of the Group of
Governmental Experts.
Introduction
Colombia is generally in favour of a free, open and secure digital environment
in which net neutrality is ensured, and thus believes that it is important to continue to
give priority to capacity-building and cooperation based on international law and
existing norms and agreements, as well as to the implementation of confidence building measures in cyberspace.
Colombia has made significant efforts in the field of cybernetics by
strengthening inter-agency coordination at the highest level in order to ensure a more
secure cyberspace.
Pursuant to the public policy on digital security adopted in 2016, the national
Government established the Digital Security Committee, in which relevant entities
participate, and which coordinates efforts to address potential national cybersecurity
crises. The Committee is led by a national coordinator, who is currently the
Presidential Adviser for Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation. The Ministry
of Information and Communications Technology serves as its technical secretariat.
These bodies coordinate efforts to examine and update policies and laws related
to digital security, review the international agenda and ensure national defence and
security in the digital environment, in order to guide activities aimed at mitigating
and countering cyberattacks, protecting the country’s critical infrastructure and
strengthening human, technical, technological and physical capacities, as indicated
below:
• Computer Emergency Response Group of Colombia. A body within the
Ministry of Defence whose purpose is to coordinate the activities necessary to
protect critical State infrastructure against cyb ersecurity emergencies which
threaten or undermine national security and defence. It is responsible for
responding to computer security incidents.
• Joint Cyber Command of the national military forces. A supervisory body
responsible for directing, planning, coordinating, integrating, implementing and
synchronizing joint cyberoperations. It is tasked with implementing
cyberdefence measures and with conducting military cyberoperations at the
strategic level in order to ensure national secur ity and defence in cyberspace,
including coordination concerning critical infrastructure.
• Cybersecurity Capacities Centre of Colombia of the Cyber Police Centre.
A division within the Directorate for Criminal Investigation and the
International Criminal Police Organization of the National Police which is
responsible for developing criminal investigation strategies, programmes and
projects to ensure digital security, cybersecurity and the protection of the
national population’s information and data circulating in cyberspace.
• Computer security incident response team. Colombia has governmental,
financial, sectoral and private response teams. At the regional level, within the
framework of the Organization of American States (OAS), Colombia is a
member of the hemispheric network of computer security incident response
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