The Panamanian Government Creates its First Cyber Monitoring Center in Response to Hacking
Fábrega confirmed that there are local hacker groups and that all identified attacks, whether local or international, are reported to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
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Amid a surge of cyberattacks against public and private entities in Panama, the administrator of the National Authority for Government Innovation (AIG), Adolfo Fábrega, revealed that the government has been operating for just two months with its first Cybersecurity Operations Center, a unit that monitors the State’s networks in real time and which, he said, did not exist before.
The official explained that when the current administration took office, the state only had one incident response team. In two years, he added, the AIG incorporated two cybersecurity tools, one costing over $3 million and another nearly $1 million, designed to detect threats before they materialize.
