Towards a disruptive cybersecurity organization in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Abstract

This article presents the advances of a study that aims to analyze the implications of a disruptive cybersecurity organization in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. It is a multi-method, descriptive field study for which it was necessary to review materials and documents regarding the object to be studied. In an increasingly globalized context, a new area called cyberspace emerges. This area has become the new battleground par excellence to materialize the great strategies of the 21st century announced by the United States in the past decade, which involve defeating the enemy at the lowest possible cost, in the shortest possible time and with the least number of potential casualties. Bearing this slogan in mind, new threats associated with cyberspace arise. It is a new borderless and asymmetrical battlefield that demands that nation-states, regardless of their size or ideology, need to have a highly adaptive national cybersecurity organization and strategy. The concluding ideas show that there is a need for a leading organization to design and implement defensive and offensive cybersecurity strategies. This need arises due to the atomization of the organizational ecosystem that is dedicated to detecting, neutralizing, and recovering the operability of the Venezuelan State's critical infrastructure when faced by latent risks in cyberspace, as well as its inability to adapt to these.