Key Factors for a Cybersecurity and Cyberintelligence Policy in Brazil
Cybersecurity; cyberintelligence; national policy; venture capital.
This work aims to understand of the current state of the Brazilian national cyber capability and identify promising avenues for its improvement through the evaluation of key success factors for a national Cybersecurity and Cyber Intelligence Policy in Brazil. The sector presents great demand from the State; many countries use this demand to mobilize their innovation entrepreneurship, with public support policies and private venture capital investments. This strategy combines the supply of important defense and security needs with the country's technological, economic and social development. In defense, Brazil has a Cyber Defense Center that nevertheless operates in a paradigm of d e p e n d e n c e o n f o r e i g n t o o l s a n d technologies. In the sphere of public security and intelligence, state action in the cyber environment is still not clearly organized and regulated and the current National Cybersecurity Strategy lacks better definitions. Therefore, there is an opportunity to formulate a policy that consolidates and organizes state demand and directs it to be s u p p l i e d b y n a t i o n a l i n n o v a t i o n entrepreneurship. The potential critical aspects of such a policy are evaluated in the light of the literature and the opinion of Brazilian experts belonging to the interest groups in the matter, namely, state agents, development managers, venture capital managers, entrepreneurs, specialists and researchers, through interviews and questionnaire. The results indicate that it is possible for Brazil to parameterize a national policy to promote cyber security and intelligence that circumvents existing obstacles and boosts a cybersecurity and cyberintelligence industry in the country.