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- The State of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure in the Americas
View research paper: Report on Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure in the Americas
As more critical infrastructure systems around the world go online, attacks against them become more prevalent and sophisticated. Connectivity is an established need for nations to go far in the economic and political arena. As such, small nation states which have relatively less or newer resources for digital security become large flashing targets for attackers looking to compromise large infrastructure and put citizens at a disadvantage.
As such, the Organization of American States (OAS) spearheaded this comprehensive “Report on Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure in the Americas,” with Trend Micro, Inc. to focus on the challenges that member states and their critical infrastructure systems face. This paper also revisits the findings of a similar paper in 2013, entitled “Latin American and Caribbean Cybersecurity Trends and Government Responses.”
[More: How prepared are governments and private organizations to thwart attacks? Get the full report from Trend Micro and the OAS]
Apart from Trend Micro, the OAS has also collaborated with private entities like Microsoft, and Symantec as well as non-profit organizations the World Economic Forum, STOP. THINK. CONNECT, and the Latin American and Caribbean Network Information Center in the fight against targeted threats and cybercrime.
Further, the report answers the question on how hyperconnectivity in developing states opens up an avalanche of threats that can hinder economic goals they hope to achieve. The region ranks among the fastest-growing Internet populations in the world. Its people face a number of significant cybersecurity challenges as a result.
The following points are presented in the report:
Read the “Report on Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure in the Americas” for more on the cybersecurity challenges faced by individuals, critical infrastructure operators, and businesses in Latin America and the Pacific.
Visit the Threat Intelligence Center for more on ICS and SCADA systems and industrial cyber security.
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