The Government of Colombia plans to present a bill to Congress soon to create a national cybersecurity agency.
The announcement was made by the ICT Minister, Mauricio Lizcano, during the Cyber Summit event, organized by the United Kingdom embassy.
Lizcano intends to take advantage of the fact that the new legislature begins on July 20th, according to a press release from the ICT Ministry.
The agency would be framed in a broader cybersecurity strategy.
Lizcano indicated that Colombia should become a regional benchmark in cybersecurity and offer services to other nations.
"If there is no digital security we cannot build a real transformation. Cybersecurity is a public policy project for Colombia to be a world power. We are open to cooperating with the private sector, academia, the Military Forces and other countries in the world that consider that we can work together."