Mr. Freddy Macho, the Industrial Cibersecurity Center Coordinator in Venezuela (CCI Coordinators Team), helps us to get in context of the state of the industrial cybersecurity in his country, and to do so, he shares with us his impressions.

He describes the level of sensitivity of industrial organizations in his country according to the following percentages:

He also affirms that the trend of recent years has remained unchanged.

Venezuela counts with local and national public bodies promoting an adequate legal framework, in order to ensure the progressive incorporation of industrial cybersecurity measures in national presence companies (mainly critical infrastructure). The main organizations are:

• Ministry of the Popular Power of Petroleum and Mining
• Ministry of Popular Power for Electric Energy
• SUSCERTE
• Forensic Informatics Expertise Services (CENIF in Spanish)
• Telematic Incident Management Services (VenCERT in Spanish)

Among the main national laws and regulations affecting in this context in Venezuela, Freddy mentions:

• There is no specific law that covers Cybersecurity in industrial areas
• Law on Protection of the Privacy of Communications
• Copyright Law of August 14, 1993
• Decree with Force of Law 1,204 on Data Messages and Electronic Signatures of February 10, 2001.
• Law 48 of September 4, 2001. Special against Computer Crimes

Analysing the most widely adopted industrial cybersecurity measures by Venezuela's organizations to protect industrial automation systems, Freddy highlights the application of:

• Industrial Cybersecurity Consulting / Advisory
• Ethical Hacking
• Internal Security Audits
• Design and Architectures of Networks
• Conventional firewalls
• IDS/IPS
• Encrypted Communications
• Whitelisting
• Antivirus

The CCI Coordinator in Venezuela characterizes the industrial cybersecurity situation in his country with the following SWOT analysis: