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New Cybercrime Prevention and Strategic Cybersecurity Plan

The Plan’s goal is to ensure the safe use of cyberspace.

The Ministry of Security has approved the Federal Cybercrime Prevention and Strategic Cybersecurity Management Plan (2025-2027) to adopt a comprehensive, collaborative, and federal approach to promote a secure environment for the use of information and communication technologies, to enhance the capacities for preventing and investigating cybercrimes, and to foster a culture of cybersecurity and protection of cyber infrastructures.

The Plan recognizes that threats in cyberspace are diverse and sophisticated, ranging from ransomware attacks that paralyze critical systems to phishing campaigns aimed at stealing personal and financial information. It highlights that one of the greatest challenges in fighting cybercrime and ensuring cybersecurity is the rapid evolution of attackers' techniques, tactics, and procedures.

Further, the Plan establishes that fighting cybercrime and strengthening cybersecurity must be regarded as matters of State policy, given the significant role that information and communication technologies have in our lives and the complex web of sociocultural relationships that surround us.

According to the Plan, the Directorate of Cybercrime and Cyber Affairs must design and lead the strategic coordination of police and security forces in the fight against cybercrime. The Plan identifies several factors that affect the efforts to prevent, detect, investigate, and provide assistance in cases of cybercrime and financially-driven offenses.

Among other considerations, the Plan emphasizes the need to:

1. recognize cybercrime and cybersecurity strengthening as matters of State policy,
2. bolster human resources and technological tools,
3. promote specialization within response teams,
4. adjust and update existing regulations.

The Plan is governed by a general goal: ensuring the safe use of cyberspace to protect the rights and guarantees, recognized under the current legal framework. Its specific goals include:

1. federal coordination in combating cybercrime,
2. strengthening and providing highly specialized training,
3. updating the legal framework,
4. enhancing digital forensic analysis capabilities,
5. promoting international cooperation,
6. protecting children,
7. raising awareness and preventing crime,
8. fostering multisectoral cooperation.

The Plan aligns with the Second Federal Cybersecurity Strategy, approved by the Secretariat of Public Innovation under the Chief of Cabinet’s Office.

 

Article provided by INPLP member: Diego Fernandez (Marval O’Farrell Mairal, Argentina)

 

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