Cayman to undergo cyber risk review
(CNS): Both public and private sector organisations across the Cayman Islands are to be part of a cybersecurity assessment, Premier Wayne Panton has revealed. Although the country has largely kept cyber threats at bay, the pace and scale of cyber attacks show no sign of abating and he said the government is committed to adopting a strategic, risk-based approach to cybersecurity for the protection of data and safeguarding the digital services relied on by residents and those operating from this jurisdiction.
Panton said Cayman relies on effective cybersecurity and for maintaining its international reputation. “Given this context, I have approved an exercise to conduct a National Cyber Risk Assessment for the Cayman Islands jurisdiction,” he said in a release issued Wednesday.
“This will be the first time we have conducted such a broad and important assessment across government, critical statutory authorities, government companies and private sector entities. The outcome of this exercise will inform our national cybersecurity strategy and provide a baseline upon which we can objectively measure our cybersecurity maturity across our jurisdiction,” he added.
Panton said it would also determine what investments are needed to maintain an appropriate level of cybersecurity.
“It is essential that we continue on our path of prioritising and taking a risk-based approach. If we are in any doubt about the importance of this, we only need look at the increased prevalence of publicly reported, significant and disruptive cyber-attacks which have targeted at both public and private sector organisations around the world,” the premier warned.
“A collaborative effort between the public and our critical private sector entities is essential to keep the jurisdiction safe and counter any cyber threats that we may face in the future,” he added.
Minister Andre Ebanks’ Ministry of Investment, Innovation and Social Development will lead the initiative with its already established Cyber Security Unit. Chief Information Security Officer Pamela Greene will lead this exercise and her team will include resources from the UK Government’s Home Office and “world-class cybersecurity expertise” to support the initiative, Panton said.
In the coming weeks, officials will reach out to private sector entities that fall within the scope of this assessment and the community is being asked to support the project to help protect the country’s cybersecurity.
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PACT can start internally…. begin with CIAA – they were bugging employees phones and computers years ago and probably still are!
So in time honoured tradition Ms Greene will select the consultants who will carry out this project on behalf of our world class Civil Service.
Cue cyber attacks.
You called?
Any hacker wanting to upload a virus to any computer systems in Cayman would have retired and expired before they got the file to upload at our internet speeds.
lmao
I am pleased to see that the government is taking the cyber security situation seriously. We do need to protect our essential infrastructure.
But at the same time, I am still waiting for internet speeds that are fast enough to be able to use Skype or FB video out here on the East End. Wasn’t it 2015 or 2016 that the government told us that they would be introducing fibre optic to the entire island as a priority given that the internet service providers had failed in their contracted responsibilities to do it.
And here we are still on dial up speeds from 20 yrs ago out here.
What he qants to do is stop tge police putting every oiece of data they own on a single hard drive that has no prote tions to stop internal staff from sharing ANYTHING on that hard drive. It is so full it is on the verge of crashing and it holds everything from evidential statements to images of crimes and victims. The management of personal data by RCIPS is woeful and fails GDPR on every level. There is essentially no management of data whatsoever.
That first sentence, jesus christ.
It’s called sausage fingers and phone keyboard. Doh!
PACT has sunk Cayman once and for all, no one has any interest in or need to target the jurisdiction as a result of their panic and irrational fear based decision making.