A/68/156/Add.1 • Organizing joint international programmes to raise awareness and disseminate a culture of global security; • Fostering academic collaboration and formulating relevant programmes and curriculums; • Encouraging and fostering joint research and development programmes in that area. Turkey [Original: English] [10 June 2013] General appreciation of the issues of information security Information security has become a necessity in the globalized world as the use of information technologies grows. Information security and cyber security are issues that must be managed with the cooperation of all related parties. In Turkey, the National Cyber Security Board, a central mechanism to coordinate the related parties and follow relevant studies, was established by the Cabinet decision on enforcement, management and coordination of the national cyber security studies, which was published in the Turkish Official Gazette, No. 28447, of 20 October 2012. The national cyber security strategy and the action plan for 2013-2014 were approved on 20 December 2012, at the first meeting of the National Cyber Security Board. The goals of the strategy and the action plan are as follows: • To establish an infrastructure that enables the availability of the services, processes and data provided through information technologies by governmental organizations • To ensure the security of information systems used in critical infrastructures that are operated by the Government or the private sector • To determine the strategic cyber security actions to minimize the effects of cyber attacks and shorten the recovery time after attacks • To constitute an infrastructure that facilitates the investigation on cyber crimes by judicial authorities and law enforcement bodies. The main areas of the action plan are the following: 13-47545 1. Regulations 2. Studies to facilitate judicial processes 3. Establishment of a national computer emergency response team 4. Strengthening the national cyber security infrastructure 5. Training and raising awareness of human resources about cyber security 6. Development of national technologies for cyber security 7. Expanding the scopes of the national cyber security mechanisms. 21/24