The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT) have signed a mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing to strength­en co­op­er­a­tion on cy­ber se­cu­ri­ty.

The agree­ment was signed to­day at the min­istry’s of­fice at the In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front Com­plex in Port of Spain by Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary Wil­son Hen­der­son Jr. and TATT chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Kurleigh Prescod.

It es­tab­lish­es a frame­work for col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween the min­istry, through the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cy­ber Se­cu­ri­ty In­ci­dent Re­sponse Team (TT-CSIRT), and TATT to im­prove cy­ber threat in­for­ma­tion shar­ing, tech­ni­cal co­op­er­a­tion and cy­ber in­ci­dent re­sponse.