18th Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum – Mitigating Cyber Security Threats to Defense and Finance Systems and Infrastructure

Mr. Mahant started off by saying that doing nothing to combat cybercrimes is a decision of whether or not to stay in business. There is a big threat, and that is cybersecurity. Then he went on saying that everyone needs to be aware of cybersecurity. We need to be aware of where our data is and that this issue is a joint effort between public and private sectors in information sharing.

Three Main Aspects of Focus:

• Cooperation and coordination
• Investments
• Cooperation

How do we address the issue of cybercrime? Which would be the proper entity to handle this at a continental level?

• US is helpful in expertise
• OAS is a great organization to handle cybercrime