initiative by CERT Vanuatu and the ‘Pacific Cyber Security Operations Network (PaCSON)3 community’, - Cyber Smart Pacific Month Awareness campaign4 and the“Stop.Think.Connect.5” are popular platform rallying on unified awareness campaigns on Cyber Security. 4. Building Cyber Capability and Talents: Building Cyber capabilities and talents is the backbone to Vanuatu’s Cyber Security vision approach and to a robust National Security. It is vital that Vanuatu must prioritize security by taking significant steps to build our cyber capabilities and talents with the aim of improving and creating a pool of knowledgeable resources which will be the first to respond to cyber security incidents and issues when identified. Current lack of cyber security experts across all cyber related professions calls for the need to establish capacity building mechanisms that will ensure Vanuatu has the capacity to Protect, Detect, Identify, Respond and Recover from incidents across all sectors. Vanuatu must formulate appropriate capacity building and training program plans. The program plans must be implemented from the National Bodies responsible for education, human resource development, policies and strategies, standards, legal, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and security. It is also important to manage human resources effectively in order to accomplish bigger strategy goals and objectives. The above specific actions perceive the need to collaborate in an environment involving critical partners and agencies to ensure our cyber security priorities are effectively developed and implemented. These collaborative environment capitalizing on multi-stakeholder frameworks motivates and enables the Government of the Republic of Vanuatu not only to see and use these formal collaboration channels but a need-to-establish connection and to work together in an organized manner for the advancement of securing and protecting our National Security. Therefore, executing multi-stakeholder operations permit better information sharing, sectoral analysis and assessments to help identify critical issues, risks and prospective solutions. To date, cyber security issues, work plans and prospective solutions are derived and delivered through the following key National Cyber Security Priorities (CSPs) (Figure 13) for Vanuatu: CSP-1. CSP-2. CSP-3. CSP-4. CSP-5. CSP-6. 3 PaCSON is the Pacific Cyber Security Operations Network, a Cyber Security platform where all countries in the Pacific could collaborate together to share information, address cyber security issues, matters and cybercrime. An initiative by the Australian Government to support efforts in the Pacific region. 4 CERT Vanuatu’s Cyber Smart Pacific Awareness Campaign: https://cert.gov.vu/cybersmart/ 5 STOP. THINK. CONNECT. is the global online safety awareness campaign to help all digital citizens stay safer and more secure online. URL: https://www.stopthinkconnect.org 33 | Vanuatu’s Cyber Security Strategy 2030