Small Wars Journal posted an article on February 12, 2015, about the realm of Cyber Security in the Caribbean. Below are some key highlights:
- According to the Organization of American States (OAS) in its latest report on “Latin American + Caribbean Cyber Security Trends” released in June 2014, Latin America and the Caribbean have the fastest growing Internet population in the world with 147 million users in 2013 and growing each year.[1]
- While having more users and more network connections is a great advancement for the small islands of the Caribbean, it represents a potential threat
- We argue in this paper that cyber-crime is a criminal activity that is informational, global, and networked
- It is the product of networked technologies that have transformed the division of criminal labor to provide entirely new opportunities for, and new forms of crime which typically involve the acquisition or manipulation of information and its value across global networks[3]
- We are concerned in this paper with the Caribbean realm which possesses the “fastest growing Internet population in the world, expanding 12 percent over the past year.”[4] The Department of Defense Cyber Strategy (2015) recognizes the nefarious effects cyber criminals pose to the welfare of nation-states
- State and non-state threats often bend together, patriotic entities often act as cyber surrogates for states, and non-state entities can provide cover for state-based operators.”[5] As the Caribbean nations join the globalized and interconnected world of the twenty-first century, they must do everything within their power to ensure that their sovereign territory does not become a safe haven for cyber criminals
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