OAS HOLDS REGIONAL WORKSHOP IN COLOMBIA ON BEST PRACTICES FOR CYBER SECURITY AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CYBERCRIME
On November 28, 29 and 30, a
Regional Workshop on Best Practices for Cyber Security and the Fight
against Cybercrime took place in Bogota, Colombia. The Workshop was
jointly organized by the General Secretariat of the OAS, through the
Department of Legal Cooperation of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs,
the Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism, and
the United States Department of Justice, which serves as the Chair the
Working Group on Cyber-Crime of the REMJA (Meetings of Ministers of
Justice or Other Ministers or Attorneys General of the Americas), and
the Government of Colombia.
This component of the Bogota
Workshop constituted the 17th such regional workshop carried out with
the support of the Department of Legal Cooperation, in its role as
Technical Secretariat of the REMJA Working Group on Cyber-Crime, and
with the technical and financial support of the United States Department
of Justice. Pursuant to this training program, approximately 50
investigators and prosecutors from the Americas received training in
Bogota, in various areas related to the fight against cyber-crime,
including specific techniques and procedures for the investigation of
cyber-crimes; international and regional developments in the fight
against cyber-crimes; international cooperation and mutual assistance in
the field; and guidelines for the drafting of effective substantive and
procedural national legislation for addressing cyber-crimes, among
others. The Bogota workshop increases the number of government officials
that have received training within the framework of the Working Group to
approximately 700.
The joint actions of the REMJA
Working Group on Cyber-Crime and of CICTE, and of their respective
technical secretariats within the General Secretariat of the OAS, form
part of the
Hemispheric Cybersecurity Strategy
adopted by the OAS General Assembly.
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