{"id":102928,"date":"2017-07-26T06:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T11:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ict-pulse.com\/?p=102928"},"modified":"2017-07-25T19:55:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T00:55:52","slug":"snapshot-committed-caribbean-countries-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/2017\/07\/snapshot-committed-caribbean-countries-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot: how committed are Caribbean countries to cybersecurity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A review of the latest Global Cybersecurity Index, and a summary of the Caribbean\u2019s performance in that exercise.<\/em><\/p>\n

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As we becoming increasingly reliant on digital networks to store information and to communicate value, those networks and systems are being subject to a growing wave of threats that seek to breach, or otherwise compromise, data that has been stored. It should therefore be no surprise that a global assessment has been established to determine the extent to countries have implemented appropriate measures that ultimate demonstrate their awareness of the threats that exist and the commitment to cybersecurity as a means of mitigating them.<\/p>\n

Implemented by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the Global Cybersecurity Index has the aims to \u201chelp countries identify areas for improvement in the field of cybersecurity, as well as to motivate them to take ac on to improve their ranking, thus helping raise the overall level of commitment to cybersecurity worldwide<\/em>\u201d (Source:\u00a0 ITU<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The inaugural report for this exercise was published in 2014. In this iteration, GCI results for all 193 ITU Member States have been reported, which includes 16 Caribbean counters:<\/p>\n

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Table 1: Caribbean countries included in the 2017 GCI exercise (Source: ITU)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Approach to determining a country\u2019s GCI<\/h3>\n

According to the ITU in its 2017 GCI report<\/a>, the main objectives of the GCI are to measure:<\/p>\n