Brazil’s First National Cybersecurity Strategy: An Analysis of its Past, Present and Future

Author Information

Louise Hurel

Publication Date

2020-01-01 00:00

Security Theme

Cybersecurity

Keywords

Digital Transformation Strategy, Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights, Information security, Cybersecurity

Description

The document is a national cybersecurity strategy developed by the GSI. It includes several policy documents that have shaped the vocabulary, practice, and institutional change in inserting cybersecurity into the national agenda. The strategy promotes a holistic approach to cybersecurity that stimulates the development of a culture. It proposes a centralised model for cybersecurity to ensure strategic and operational alignment at the macro-political level. The National Policy on Information Security prescribed the establishment of a Strategy on Information Security to be published in issue-area modules. The E-Ciber provides a glimpse of a decade-long process of complex normative, political, and contextual dynamics. The strategy will be followed by a National Cybersecurity Law.

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Brazil’s First National Cybersecurity Strategy: An Analysis of its Past, Present and Future

The document is a national cybersecurity strategy developed by the GSI. It includes several policy documents that have shaped the vocabulary, practice, and institutional change in inserting cybersecurity into the national agenda. The strategy promotes a holistic approach to cybersecurity that stimulates the development of a culture. It proposes a centralised model for cybersecurity to ensure strategic and operational alignment at the macro-political level. The National Policy on Information Security prescribed the establishment of a Strategy on Information Security to be published in issue-area modules. The E-Ciber provides a glimpse of a decade-long process of complex normative, political, and contextual dynamics. The strategy will be followed by a National Cybersecurity Law.