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.

Informal Creation of the Computer Network Incident Treatment Center (CTIR-Gov) - 4055

According to the Ordinance No. 17, from May 2004, the Information Security Management Committee (CGSI) came up with a working group which aimed implementing the necessary administrative measures for creating a Computer Network Incident Treatment Center. According to the Ordinance 56, at the end of the same year, there was the infromal creation of the CTIR-Gov, when the GSI Executive Secretariat shifted people and assembled a team to start the work for “receiving, analyzing and responding to notifications and activities related to computer security incidents “. In 2004, the Ordinance nº 13 gave competence to the General Coordination of Network Incidents Treatment (CGCTIR) and named the CTIR Gov. The name “Center of Treatment and Answers to Cyber Incidents” existis since the Decree nº 10.363 (05/21/2020).

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