Socialist senator José Cepeda proposes that the United Nations lead global cybersecurity

MADRID, 6 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The socialist senator, member of the Peace and International Security Commission, José Cepeda, has proposed that the United Nations lead global cybersecurity, through the implementation of a global infrastructure where countries can share the techniques, tactics and procedures of cyberterrorist groups, in order to avoid threats to countries' critical infrastructures.

Cepeda, who is commissioned by the IPU to prepare the report 'Cyberattacks and cybercrimes, new threats to global security', has made this statement after a meeting held with the President of the United Nations, Faouzia Mebarki, and with the Secretary General of the IPU, Martín Chungong, at the International Convention on the fight against the use of information and communication technologies for criminal purposes.

Likewise, the senator has held a meeting scheduled for the Asia-Pacific region with representatives of China, Bangladesh and Indonesia, as well as the heads of Interpol and the Council of Europe, and this afternoon he is participating in the meeting scheduled for Africa, Europe and the Americas in order to discuss with the United Nations the next steps to take in the protection of vulnerabilities that today put the security of millions of people at risk.

And it is that, as has been revealed during the meetings, cyberterrorists work organized worldwide, so the United Nations could lead a large organization of global cybersecurity infrastructures.

Specifically, it advocates creating a Super World Security Operations Center (SuperSOC) that offers help and protection to countries that, like in a pandemic, without being protected, can be used to (infect) attack others. This mechanism would coordinate other continental security operations centers, which in turn would coordinate the necessary national cybersecurity centers.

In this sense, Cepeda has highlighted the future challenges that lie ahead in the implementation of future quantum technology and its ability to exceed the current cryptological autonomy of countries, as well as possible vulnerabilities in the 5G satellite network or the use of Artificial Intelligence for uses far removed from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In the report prepared by the socialist senator, parliaments in the world are urged to be protected in a special way, classifying them as critical infrastructures, as well as times of special attention, such as electoral processes.

"We must offer a safe, globally trusted cyberspace where the defense and intelligence systems of our countries can have immediate tools and resources and anticipate attacks that put our democracies and the lives of millions of people at risk," Cepeda concluded.