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GACOF Consulting provides sophisticated and understandable analysis under emerging technology adoption environments to assess the maturity state of cybersecurity in countries, economic sectors, private organizations and public entities.

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Our Cybersecurity practice is involved in a wide range of work related to the development of national cybersecurity / digital security policies / strategies, the preparation of studies and reports on the subject in the Latin American and Caribbean region and advising organizations regarding of cybersecurity / digital security risk management.

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Our service offering includes the following:

Our CEO, Orlando Garcés, is an International Consultant and advisor on cybersecurity matters for multilateral organizations such as the Organization of American States -OAS and the Inter-American Development Bank -BID- in the preparation of studies and reports on the subject in various economic sectors. such as the financial sector and the banking sector, in the Latin America and the Caribbean region.

 

In matters of cybersecurity, cyber defense and digital security, it has participated in the following events:

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  • Panelist regarding the Identification and Management of Risks in the Adoption of New Technologies (Internet of things, blockchain, Big data, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the 2nd national meeting of the Cybersecurity Innovation Councils (CICs) in Mexico, invited by the Organization of American States (OAS) and CISCO (March 17, 2021)

  • Panelist regarding the Identification and Management of Risks in the Adoption of New Technologies (Internet of things, blockchain, Big data, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the 2nd national meeting of the Cybersecurity Innovation Councils (CICs) in Colombia, invited by the Organization of American States (OAS) and CISCO (November 30, 2020)

  • Panelist at the Comprehensive Risk Management Week (VI International Seminar on Fraud Prevention - VIII International Seminar on Operational Risk) (Lima, Peru, October 1-3, 2019)

  • Expert Professor at the OAS Cybersecurity Symposium 2019, invited by the Organization of American States (OAS) giving the module “Formulation and implementation of Cybersecurity Policies / Strategies at the national level vs. at the organizational level” (Santiago, Chile, September 24-27, 2019)

  • International Expert invited by the Organization of American States (OAS), for the development of the National Cybersecurity Policy of Ecuador (Quito, Ecuador, July 29 and 30, 2019)

  • Professor of the Strategy Development Module in the Cybersecurity Leadership & Strategy Executive Certificate Program 2019. Organized by the Organization of American States (OEA) and Florida International University (FIU) (Bogotá, Colombia, July 15-16, 2019)

  • International Expert invited by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Digital Government Secretariat of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Peru, for the development of the State of Cybersecurity in Peruvian Organizations 2019 (Lima, Peru, 11 and 12 July 2019)

  • Panelist at the Workshop of principles of building security in the use of ICTs in the national context, invited by the Government of Canada and the Organization of American States (OAS) (Singapore, Singapore, June 25-26, 2019)

  • International Expert , invited by the Organization of American States (OAS), for the development of the State of Cybersecurity in the Financial Sector in Mexico 2018 (CDMX, Mexico, March 21 and 22, 2019)

  • Panelist at the OAS Cybersecurity Symposium 2018, invited by the Organization of American States (OAS) and launching the report State of Cybersecurity in the Banking Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean (Washington, USA, September 24-28, 2018 )

  • International Expert invited by the Organization of American States (OAS), for the development of the State of Cybersecurity in the Financial Sector in Mexico 2018 (CDMX, Mexico, August 28 and 29, 2018)

  • Representative of Colombia in the Cybersecurity Summer BootCamp 2018. Organized and invited by the National Institute of Cybersecurity of Spain (INCIBE) and the Organization of American States (OAS) (León, Spain, July 17 to 28, 2018)

  • Panelist at the Cyber ​​South School on Internet Governance -Cyber ​​SSIG- 2018, invited by the Organization of American States (OAS) (Washington, USA, April 30 to May 2, 2018)

  • Representative of Colombia in the Cybersecurity Executive Training 2018. Organized and invited by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel, March 4-15, 2018)

  • International Expert invited by the Organization of American States (OAS) for the development of the State of Cybersecurity in the Banking Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean (Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 11-12, 2017)

  • International Expert, invited by the Organization of American States (OAS), for the construction of the National Cybersecurity Strategy of Mexico (CDMX, Mexico, July 11-13, 2017)

  • Participant in the Cybersecurity Leadership & Strategy Executive Certificate Program 2017. Organized by the Organization of American States (OEA) and Florida International University (FIU) (Washington, USA, April 6 and 7, 2017)

  • International Expert invited by the Organization of American States (OAS) for the development of the Study on the Impact of Incidents, Threats and Cyber ​​Attacks in Colombia (Washington, USA, July 21 and 22, 2016 - March 27 to 31, 2017).

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