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With regard to the second objective, on creating the conditions to enable the
various stakeholders to manage the digital security risk in their socioeconomic
activities, and build confidence in the use of the digital environment, some progress
has been made on developing a draft national digital security agenda. However, it is
necessary to continue strengthening the linkages between the discussions of all the
various stakeholders, have more academic contributions (research) on the topic and
support public entities to adopt the digital security risk-management model. Several
awareness-raising campaigns have been carried out, such as the programme “I trust
ICT”, and, with the support of the OAS, the Study of the Economic Impact of Cyber
Incidents, Threats and Attacks in Colombia for 2017 was produced, and the same
study is being conducted for 2018.
As challenges, we recognize the need to identify areas related to digital securit y
in which research should continue and be strengthened, identify a clear and effective
model for coordination and communication that facilitates the establishment of the
necessary legal framework on digital security that will support the digital
transformation of the various stakeholders, efficiently communicate the outcome of
strategic studies at high levels within the Government to guide decision -making and
to reorient the strategy for the development of educational content to be included in
the academic curricula used at the different levels in the educational system.
With respect to the third objective, enhancing the security of individuals and the
State in the digital environment, at the national and transnational levels, with an
emphasis on risk management, progress has been made on plans for building the
capacity of key actors, reports on cybercrime statistics and strengthening of the risk management capacity of those responsible for cybersecurity in the country.
The challenge is the urgent need to implement the plans to strengthen
operational, administrative, human and scientific capacity, as well as the physical and
technological infrastructure of the bodies and entities responsible for cybersecurity,
and to establish guidelines for adjusting the existing legal and regulatory framewo rk
to match needs relating to: (a) analysis, anticipation, prevention, detection, response
to and investigation of cyberoffences, cybercrime and phenomena, in the digital
environment, and offences and crimes involving th e use of the digital environment;
(b) prosecution and criminalizat ion of new forms of crime, including cyberoffences
that facilitate money-laundering, and (c) modernization of the agencies for security,
national defence and intelligence in the digital environment, in accordance with the
basic principles of the national digital security policy.
With regard to the fourth objective, strengthening national defence and
sovereignty in the digital environment, with an emphasis on risk management ,
progress has been made in the development of plans for enhancing the capacity of
key actors, the regular updating of the catalogue of national critical
cyberinfrastructure, the creation of some of the content for the critical
cyberinfrastructure protection plans, the establishment of a number of sectoral
cybersecurity incident response teams to facilitate the appropriate management of
digital incidents that affect national critical cyberinfrastructure (such as government,
financial sector and electricity sector infrastructure) and the participation of certain
stakeholders in simulation and training exercises, at the national and international
levels, with a view to developing the skills and abilities of the various stakeholders
responsible for the national critical cyberinfrastructure and national defence in the
digital environment.
The challenges to achieving this objective are the need to reshape, from the
highest level, the guidelines for the protection and defence of national critical
cyberinfrastructure, taking into account the new situation, and the need to issue a
formal protocol for managing and responding to digital security incidents that affect
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