A/75/123 Coordination Mechanism for Digital Security and the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology of Colombia. The workshop was attended by delegates from 13 Latin American countries (officials from the criminal investigation police and other government agencies), who received training on matters relating to obtaining cross-border digital evidence; legislative updates in the United States, Canada and the European Union; emergency disclosure requests; and the preparation of requests for mutual legal assistance, among other issues, with a view to strengthening international cooperation in the prevention of terrorism and organized crime. During the past three years, the Attorney General’s Office has approved the secondment of criminal investigation officers from the computer crime and computer forensics groups to attend important seminars and training sessions organized by OAS and the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry, among others, and to work with prosecutors who are familiar with and lead investigations relating to technology (as a means or an end in the commission of a crime). In addition, with the support of private entities and local universities, various training courses have been held on combating cybercrime and improving techniques such as protocols and training in hardware and software for digital evidence analysis in order to correlate cases and detect patterns. The National Intelligence Directorate, in coordination with the intelligence sector’s computer security incident response team, plans to build capacities for penetration testing and vulnerability analysis, forensic analysis and recovery of digital information, analysis of malware and cyberartefacts, analysis of apps, an opensource laboratory and the study of cyberphenomena. In response to the recommendation to develop regional approaches to capacity building, bearing in mind specific issues of a cultural, geographical, political, economic or social nature, in order to promote an approach adapted to each specific case, the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, through the security and privacy group of the Digital Government Directorate, has been implementing an information security and privacy model that brings together instruments that enable State entities at the national and local levels to deal with cyberthreats, creating a security culture that makes it possible to build situational awareness in dealing with the cyberthreats that affect organizations at the transnational level. In addition, the authorities responsible for crime policy have been designing a national plan that covers matters relating to different forms of crime. The National Intelligence Directorate is working on building the capacity of the national intelligence community with regard to the secure exchange of information. In that regard, a project is being developed to provide training and capacity -building for Caribbean countries in protection and the management of good practices, in coordination with the Presidential Agency for Cooperation. In the interests of building ICT security capacity, as already noted, Colombia has participated in bilateral and multilateral cooperation initiatives with a view to improving the environment for the provision of effective mutual assistance in response to ICT incidents. The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology has also been developing strategies for cooperation with security companies and cyber entities at the international level, to share threat intelligence at the strategic, tactical and operational levels. 20-08285 25/84