14 DAY TRIAL // A cyberattack response network has been formed in Brazil in order to facilitate a faster response to cyber threats and vulnerabilities by coordinating the efforts of federal government agencies, according to ZDNet.
The Federal Cyber Incident Management Network, created by a presidential executive order signed July 16, would include the Office of the President Institutional Security Office and all agencies and entities of the federal government. Members of the network may include public businesses, mixed enterprises, and their subsidiaries who choose to do so willingly. The Network shall be coordinated by the Department of Information Security of the Presidency Institutional Security through the Government's Center for Cybersecurity Prevention, Treatment, and Response.
The network is intended to provide a strategic purpose for the Digital Government Secretariat (DGS), an agency run by the Ministry of Economy's Special Secretariat for Management and Digital Government. The DGS is the primary body of SISP, a system for planning, coordinating, managing, operating, monitoring, and controlling the Federal Government's information technology resources in more than 200 entities. According to the DGS, the information sharing set forth in the network establishment order is intended to improve the SISP's outline of incident prevention and probable response to cyberattacks.
The network's shared goal is to improve the country's cybersecurity
The Secretariat also conveyed the expectation that public businesses such as Dataprev, a state-owned social security technology and Serpro, the federal data processing department, will join the project, although their participation is not required. With immediate knowledge of attacks as well as possible vulnerabilities, the Secretariat will be able to alert other agencies to the need for mitigation measures, adding that developing policies and training to address the main problems identified by the network could be another area of focus.
The United Nations, in which Brazil rose 53 places from 70th in 2018 to 18th in 2021, is the best result in Latin America. Caio Mario Paes de Andrade, the digital government and the management secretary, said that creating a network of Brazilian Government helps to achieve this.The secretary explains "The advancement of digital transformation must be accompanied by the protection of users and we have ensured this protection," [...] "The network's rational is to further foster the culture of coordinated confrontation within the government, so that we can continue advancing on the issue of cyber security."