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CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS FROM THE AMERICAS TO MEET IN BRAZIL

  September 12, 2005

Government experts on computer security from around the Americas will meet September 14-16 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to further their cooperation on a hemispheric cybersecurity strategy developed by the Organization of American States (OAS).

The Second Meeting of Government Cybersecurity Practitioners will examine how to implement plans for a rapid-response network to detect vulnerabilities and threats to information systems in the hemisphere. The creation of a network of Computer Security Incident Response Teams is part of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy developed by the OAS Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) and the Group of Experts on Cybercrime established by the hemisphere’s ministers of justice and attorneys general. The strategy was formally adopted by the OAS General Assembly in 2004.

Brazil’s Minister of Institutional Security, General Jorge Armando Félix, and the Director of the OAS Department of Multidimensional Security, Steven Monblatt, will open the meeting in Sao Paulo, which will begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Blue Tree Convention Center. Clovis Baptista, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL), will also be among the presenters.

The first such meeting of government cybersecurity experts took place in Ottawa, Canada, in 2004.

For more information about the Sao Paulo meeting, please consult the Web site on the event (http://www.secgov.com.br) or contact Luiz Coimbra, in São Paulo (phone: 55 11 9940 8031) (e-mail: [email protected]).

Reference: E-191/05