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OAS
Secretariat for Multidimensional Security
CICTE Secretariat
Disasters and Critical Infrastructure Protection
Agenda
• Cyber Security program
– Cyber study and conclusions
– Initiatives
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Emerging Threats program
Maritime Security program
Tourism Security
Possible future initiatives
Collaboration and partnerships
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Some findings
•Increased and attacks to critical infrastructure facilities
•Honeypot attacks rampant
•Threats show that attackers are there, inside
infrastructures
•During a disaster, this could be leveraged to create
chaos
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Initiatives: Cyber Security CMEs
•Crisis management exercises; focus on critical
infrastructure and “cyber disasters”
•Includes
financial
sector, transportation,
press, energy sector,
etc.
•Carried
out
in
Argentina,
Colombia,
Guatemala,
Panama,
Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad,
and
Uruguay,
Washington DC
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Initiatives: Cyber Security CIP
Workshops
•Held in Colombia (2012); Argentina (2013); Mexico
(2014)
•Goal 1: Strengthen understanding of managerial
officials at critical infrastructures of threats and
mitigation strategies
•Goal 2: Teach technicians and security engineers
techniques to protection critical networks in the event
of a national disaster
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Emerging Threats/Maritime Security
•Tabletop CM exercises (TTX): designed to promote
preparedness for natural or man-made disasters
•Based on a bio-incident scenario which takes place at
an airport. Three Stages. Debriefs include
recommendations for strengthening CIP and resilience
•Partners: PAHO; Interpol; UN; US DHHS; FEMA; CDC
•TTXs for Ports: discuss vulnerabilities; responsibilities;
Coordination: Who is in charge of what; up to when?
•Contingency planning, consequence management in
six stages: Prevention, Preparedness, Mitigation,
Response, Recovery, Resilience (Israel)
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Tourism
•Tourism as critical infrastructure: as much as 65% of
GDP in Caribbean; 163 million tourists in the Americas
in 2012; worth more than $200 billion; main pillar of
economy in many Member States
•Requires that water and food supply, transportation,
communications, health, and other infrastructures are
operating to acceptable norms
•Declaration of San Salvador for Sustainable Tourism
Development in the Americas (2011). Multidimensional
approach to reduce risks associated with natural and
man-made disasters
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Tourism security - programming
•TTXs test crisis management capabilities in response
to man-made or natural disasters that affect the
tourism industry and associated infrastructures
•Important aspect of dealing with these disasters: crisis
communication
•Partner closely with other orgs like PAHO, the
Caribbean Disaster Management Agency (CDEMA) and
private sector entities
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Possible future initiatives
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Development of Disaster Recovery Management Plans: Focus on
multi-stakeholder approach including Critical Infrastructure
operators and responders to man-made and natural disasters
Technical assistance to list critical infrastructure assets to evaluate
vulnerabilities, interdependencies and gaps, to prepare and
implement risk-based security and resilience programs
Development of legislation specific to critical infrastructure
protection
TTX in Bahamas
New Work Plan to be developed for cooperation with Israel
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Thank you!
Pablo Martinez
Programs Coordinator
Inter-American Committee against Terrorism
Secretariat for Multidimensional Security
Organization of American States
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Washington D.C.
T: (202) 370-4972
F: (202) 458-3857
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