Senior US official urges greater readiness against cybercrime

Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice, Richard W. Downing (centre) with Ambassador Elisabeth Harper, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (left) and National Security Advisor, Gerry Gouveia. (US Embassy photo)

A senior US government official has urged Guyana to step up efforts to take on cybercrime and an assessment team is to visit this week to share best practices for the protection of military networks.

A release from the US Embassy said that Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice, Richard W. Downing; accompanied by Cybersecurity Program Manager from the Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism, Organization of America States (OAS),  Kerry-Ann Barrett; and a team of Department of Justice (DOJ) cyber experts visited Guyana to raise cyber security solutions with representatives from the Government of Guyana.