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OAS and Costa Rica to Hold Symposium on Cyber Security

  March 29, 2014

The Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) of the Organization of American States (OAS), in coordination with the Ministry of Science and Technology of Costa Rica, held a regional symposium on Cyber Security in San Jose, Costa Rica, from March 31 to April 4.

The event is divided into three courses, and has three objectives: to promote the teaching of best practices used by groups to responses to telematics incidents in the region, to defend technology platforms in state organizations; to provide a meeting point for the authorities of the OAS member states to discuss and analyze national cyber security policy; and to promote the teaching of mechanisms and techniques to acquire, analyze, preserve and present data that have been processed electronically in a computer environment.

The opening ceremony will be held at the headquarters of the National Center for High Technology in San Jose, Costa Rica, and will feature the participation of the Minister of Science and Technology of Costa Rica, Alejandro Cruz Molina; the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Costa Rica, Gabriel Macaya Trejos, and the OAS representative in Costa Rica, Henry Jova.

An estimated one hundred government officials from Costa Rica will participate, as will representatives of the governments of Panama and Honduras. Experts from the Council of Europe will also take part, together with participants from the Department of Justice of the United States, the Federal Police of Mexico and the Open Web Applications Security Project (OWASP).


WHAT: Opening Ceremony of regional symposium on Cyber Security

WHEN: March 31, at 8:30 local time (14:30 GMT)

WHERE: National Center for High Technology (CENAT. Dr. Franklin Chang Diaz Building, 1.3 km. North of the U.S. Embassy. Pavas, San José, Costa Rica

Reference: AVI-048/14