With the constant threat of cyber crimes, hacktivists, as well as nation state hackers developing nations need to have their own cybersecurity workforce to help protect governmental infrastructure. Many large firms that develop popular products in developing nations become targets that need to employ their own cybersecurity workforce to help protect the firm’s infrastructure as well as trade secrets from being stolen by hackers who are setup in less developed nations. If a developing nation has their own cybersecurity workforce they can develop partnerships within their own borders to share information about trends as well as help create industry standards and policies. They can also develop partnerships outside of their own borders, which will help protect governments, firms, as well as the Internet infrastructure as a whole through the sharing of information.
With the growth and expansion of infrastructure as well as the Internet into countries without regulatory laws it opens up a haven to people and organizations that wish to perform illegal activities. Within a less developed nation this kind of haven could run rampant if left unchecked by a cybersecurity workforce. A country without cybersecurity workforces also leaves their own national security at risk from the potential harm from an attacker. This can directly affect a country's national interests as well as the interests of all countries that the under developed country has relationships with.
“The United Nations (UN) produced a resolution mandating the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a UN agency, to spearhead an effort at spreading a culture of cybersecurity” (Target, 2010). Cybersecurity goes beyond government agencies, the UN, or national committees doing their part to help protect citizens. Firms at all levels have to do their part to help develop a partnership within their industry. These partnerships need to expand beyond the borders and work on a global level, they need to reach into lesser-developed countries and help educate their partners on how to respond to an incident. By helping developing countries learn to deal with an incident they could work to help curb the spread of malicious activity or stop cybercrimes within their own country that could spread beyond their borders.
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