Cuba News posted an article on April 5, 2019, about Cuba raising its cyber security ranking. Below are some key highlights:
- HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 5 (ACN) The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) issued its World Cybersecurity Index at the end of 2018 where Cuba was ranked 81st in the world ranking, and is categorized among the countries with an average level of cyber security
- Cuba managed to climb 71 seats between the last ranking and this, a fact that constitutes a step forward and international recognition of the efforts made by the country to strengthen the process of computerization of society
- The system – a reflection of the political will of the country’s leadership to advance in this strategic line of development, which Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez has constantly followed – corresponds to the same areas of the index issued by the ITU and includes legal, organizational, technological, human capital formation, international cooperation and institutional communication
- Related to the development of capacities, work is being done on the production of computer applications and national computer services, whose fundamental strategic line is the migration to free software, given the sustainability that these technologies provide
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