Inter-American Committee against Terrorism

2. Inter-American Committee against Terrorism

3. CICTE • 1999 - primary forum for the Member State governments to promote national, regional and international cooperation to prevent, combat and eliminate terrorism in the Americas • 3 main tasks: • developing, coordinating and implementing technical assistance and capacity building programs • serving as a clearinghouse of information and facilitating regional and international cooperation and information-sharing • providing technical and administrative support to the secretariat

4. CICTE • serves and supports member states in their national and collective efforts to prevent, combat, and eliminate terrorism in the Americas through programs organized into five main areas: • Border Controls (which includes Maritime Security, Aviation Security, Travel Document Security and Fraud Prevention, Capacity Building in Border Controls- Customs, and UNSC Res 1540 implementation) • Critical Infrastructure Protection (which includes Tourism Security, Security for Major Events and Cyber-security and Supply Chain Security) • Legislative Assistance • Counter-terrorism Financing, Emerging Threats • Policy Development and International Coordination

5. Cyber Security Strategies

6. National strategies(success stories) Colombia 2011 Panama 2013 Trinidad & Tobago 2013

7. Jamaica Colombia Bahamas Paraguay 2014 Dominica Chile

8. Cyber-Security Strategy: Jamaica • Began working with Jamaica in early 2014; fourth member state CICTE works with OAS facilitated defining of objectives through in situ meetings and surveys • Composed drafts of strategy; submitted to Jamaica for comments/feedback • Two weeks ago presented to public; awaiting official adoption by cabinet • Political opposition even participated in the process

9. Colombia Intervention

10. Colombia Intervention • Request from President of Colombia • Asked CICTE to organize commission of international experts to analyze status of Colombia security • Convened officials from North and South America, Europe, and Asia Pacific – technical, policy, law enforcement • Crafted series of recommendations and presented to cyber leadership: Ministers of Defense and ICT, Attorney General’s Office, and Joint Chiefs of Staff • Follow up project has begun; OAS will be working closely with Colombia throughout rest of 2014 and 2015

11. Our work in the Americas

12. CSIRTs in the Americas(a quick overview)

13. ArCERT- Argentinean Computer Emergency Response • CCIRC - Canadian Cyber Incident Response • US-CERT- United States Computer Emergency Readiness • CTIRGov– Brazilian Computer Security and Incident Response Team • CL-CERT- Chilean Computer Emergency Response Team

14. CSIRTsin the Americas(current status)

15. ICIC CERT • CCIRC • USCERT • CTIRGov • CERT-MX • CSIRT Chile • CL-CERT • SL-CERT • CSIRTGt • CSIRT Costa Rica • CSIRT- Panama • PE-CERT • ADISIB • CSIRT- FFAA • colCERT • GN-CSIRT • VenCERT • CERT-PY • CERTUy

16. Industrial Control: Mexico

17. Industrial Control: Mexico • Focused on energy sector – with PEMEX and the Federal Electricity Commission • Also included security stakeholders: Police, CERT-MX, Navy, Attorney General • Had both managerial and technical tracks • Attendees drafted cyber security plans to address critical infrastructure needs

18. Training and best practices

21. Cyber-Security Partnerships

22. www.oas.org/cyber/