A/71/172 (b) Cybersecurity and protection measures should be implemented; (c) The need-to-know principle should be applied; (d) Technical measures such as encryption and frequency-hopping should be employed; (e) Users and network access permissions should be verified and categorized; (f) Networks should be linked by stand-alone peripheral devices; (g) Within certain networks, closed intranets should be used, and the World Wide Web should be avoided where possible; (h) The United Nations intranet should be enhanced and kept separate from public networks. It should be protected through technical and security meas ures such as encryption, safeguards and verification of access permissions; (i) Cooperation should be promoted among computer emergency response teams to follow-up breaches, install safeguards and address gaps; (j) Security measures and procedures for addressing breaches should be circulated. We stress the potential of information and communications technology to advance sustainable development, especially in poorer and more remote areas, in the following ways: (a) It can accelerate poverty eradication, for example, through mobile banking, which has brought direct and tangible benefits to millions of people around the world who have no banking experience. (b) Modern technology and new communications media can mitigate the impact of famines by providing crucial information to farmers about which crops to cultivate. Recommendations: (a) International response and recovery teams should be formed to address cybersecurity incidents, crises and disasters; (b) A Jordanian representative should be included in the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security scheduled to be formed in 2016; (c) Scientific and research cooperation and training exchanges among the members of the Security Council should be increased. Lebanon [Original: Arabic] [24 May 2016] In the modern age, cybersecurity affects a range of economic, social, political, military and humanitarian issues. Cyberterrorism will be one of t he most serious future threats to superpowers and developing States alike. 14/24 16-12486