The existing gap in cybersecurity in Honduras

Abstract

Cybersecurity has become an ever increasing important issue in information society. Threats to cybersecurity undermine the ability of governments, businesses, and individual users to take full advantage of Information Technology.

According to some estimates, cybercrime costs the world up to US $ 575,000 million a year, representing 0.5% of global GDP. That's almost four times the annual amount of donations intended to international development. In Latin America and the Caribbean this type of crime will cost about US $ 90,000 million a year. In the absence of a national policy on cybersecurity or incident response team, the Honduran Government has a limited ability to proactively address threats to their cybersecurity.