During the event ‘Cyber ​​Summit‘, organized by the British embassy in Colombia, the minister of ICT, Mauricio Lizcano, presented the strategy laid out by the Government of Change to make Colombia a benchmark for Cyber ​​Security among the countries of the region. With this, domestic digital security will be enhanced and services will be offered to other countries.

“If there is no digital security, we cannot build real transformation. Cybersecurity is a public policy project for Colombia to become a world power. We are open to working with the private sector, academia, the military and other countries in the world who think we can work together. This problem is global and we have to act together to solve this problem, we need families and Governments to feel safe in this ecosystem“, assured the minister of ICT, Mauricio Lizcano.

The strategy for strengthening and consolidating cybersecurity throughout the country includes four complementary actions to expand Colombia’s capabilities in this area and produce a comprehensive protection model. One of the main ones is the creation of a National Cybersecurity Agency which will again be submitted to the Republican Congress, in the legislature starting tomorrow, July 20.

The second step is the strengthening of Colcert, the Colombian Cyber ​​Emergency Response Group. This is the team that is the point of contact for coordinating the prevention, mitigation, management and response to national digital security incidents in both the public and private sectors of the Ministry of ICT.

Minister Lizcano also referred to the creation of a Cybersecurity center, also known as the Hub, in Caldas. For this, an investment of around 10,000 million pesos has been laid down, partly directed towards the Bios Innovation Centre, to bring the supercomputers there to life and harness their capabilities and turn them into great citizen trainers in cybersecurity matters. The final link of this strategy is the training and training of Cybersecurity specialties in the country, through various institutions, such as SENA and companies in the digital sector.

According to the latest statistics, in 2022 Colombia received 20,000 million attempted cyberattacks. The most common types of cybercrime are: identity theft, online payment fraud, and malicious code or software. In addition, several public institutions and private companies are experiencing cyber attacks, so the Ministry of ICT places cyber security at the center of its connectivity and technology strategy to change lives.