IT Directors To Attend Cyber Crime Workshop

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Thursday, 21 April 2011 02:30

By caribarena news

Antigua St John's - Director of the Information Technology Center, Luxmore Edwards, and Director of the Connect Antigua & Barbuda Initiative, Beverly Laviscount, will join authorities and experts from the Americas next month in Miami at a workshop on international cyber crime.

The Hemispheric Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Workshop on Regional Coordination and Information Sharing seminar is slated for May 9 to 13, hosted by the Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) and the Working Group on Cyber-Crime of the Meetings of Justice or of Ministers or Attorneys General of the Americans (REMJA) of the Organization of American States (OAS), in collaboration with the US Departments of Justice and State.

The focus of the workshop will be to bring together designated users of the hemispheric network of National Cyber Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTS), and Cyber Security and Cyber Crime authorities, to discuss ongoing initiatives and remaining challenges regarding co-ordination and information sharing between governments, and criminal law enforcement entities.

Minister of Information, Broadcasting, Telecommunications, Science and Technology Dr Edward Mansoor said, “With the imminent implementation of a national CSIRT, Antigua & Barbuda is positioning itself to maintain a national central point of contact, to identify prevent and respond to computer security threats, perpetrated from or targeted at computing systems within the nation.”

Meanwhile, Rafique Henry, a network engineer within the ministry, recently concluded two cyber security training courses in Washington DC.

The courses on “Creating a Computer Security Incident Response Team” and “Managing Computer Security Incident Response Teams” were held from March 14 to 17.

In 2009, the government established a state-of-the-art forensics cyber lab to serve Antigua & Barbuda and the northern OECS countries. This Regional Cyber Investigations Laboratory allows investigators to use the latest technology to extract vital information such as text messages, videos, pictures, and encrypted documents, along with other information, from mobile devices.

The government has also facilitated cyber crime investigation training among police officers to standardize investigation procedures and evidence collection techniques.

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