What are the main challenges that Brazil faces to prevent threats in the cybersecurity field, such as cyber attacks? Who are the social actors with a key role in this theme? How can they work together to mitigate existing risks? The search for answers to these questions encouraged the Igarapé Institute to systematize, analyze and gather the existing knowledge on Brazil’s cybersecurity governance landscape.

 

The Brazilian Cybersecurity Portal gathers analyzes, research, norms and other documents on national cybersecurity. Thus, it intends to strengthen the skills for a collective action by the civil society, the academic community, the public authorities and the private sector in order to build a more secure, cooperative, resilient and sustainable digital environment.

Cyber Defense Policy Evaluation - 4095

Throught the Requirement nº 24, from 2019, this evaluation can be justified by the following affirmation from the Comission of International Relations and National Defense (CREDN): the cyber sector “is, together with the aero and nuclear, a strategic sector to the country’s defense, which requires its strengphening, improving security devices and adopting procedures that decrease vulnerabilities in systems that have the support of information technology and communication”.

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