Radio Grito Debaire posted an article on April 4, 2019, about Cuba moving up in Cyber Security rankings. Below are some key highlights:
- At the end of 2018, Cuba was ranked 81st in the world ranking endorsed by the World Cybersecurity Index, issued by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and it is categorized among the countries with an average level of cybersecurity
- This figure surpasses the position of previous years, as the island 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, highlights Granma newspaper
- “work continues to improve national cybersecurity and a work system is implemented with measures ranging from human capital training to the protection of all infrastructures and services,” Miguel Gutierrez Rodriguez, general director of information technology at the Ministry of Communications, told Granma
- The system – a reflection of the political will of the country’s leadership to advance in this strategic line of development, which the Cuban President, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, has constantly followed – corresponds to the same areas of the index issued by the ITU and it includes legal, organizational, technological, human capital formation, international cooperation and institutional communication
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