Costa Rica. The government of Costa Rica, represented by MICITT, in the company of Amazon, Trend Micro Incorporated and Venable, manage three projects to promote cybersecurity knowledge and skills in IT specialists in their region.
In total there will be 3 independent projects that will be carried out by the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT) of Costa Rica. All aimed at helping organizations and strengthening their cybersecurity capabilities.
This is a relevant issue at the national level, because according to the ministry "Ransomware attacks today have evolved considerably. During the first months of the year, we observed that ransomware families have been increasing their number of successful attacks by now using a RaaS (Ransomware as a Service) model and using triple extortion." He also pointed out that large, small and medium-sized companies are in the crosshairs.
August 12 was the official announcement that three cybersecurity tools will be made available to public and private organizations that will help increase and reinforce the knowledge and skills of IT specialists, so that the whole country is increasingly prepared for cyberattacks.
These tools are free of charge and will be run by the local Trend Micro team in Costa Rica. Their names are:
• Cyber-exercises to increase response capacity to Ransomware incidents
• Risk Assessment for future Ransomware attacks
• Attack, defense and early response simulation training
Costa Rica, behind cybersecurity
Another piece of evidence that demonstrates the commitment to strengthening cyberattacks, not only governmental, but also civil, is that Costa Rica is the country with the highest searches of thesearch term "Cybersecurity". For the span of 1 year and globally, according to Google Trends, (with a search date updated to August 23, 2022).
At the same time, it ranks second, for the same time period (August 2021 to August 2022) globally in searches related to the term "Cyberattack".
