Colombia’s cybersecurity sector has been chalking up impressive growth rates in recent years. In the public sector 2019 has so far seen a 13% investment rise in projects carried out by the Ministry of Information Technologies. In the equally buoyant private sector pride of place goes to the banking sector’s digital transformation initiatives, backed up by a higher cybersecurity awareness in other companies.

On 4 July Bogota hosted a one-day cybersecurity conference organized by Spain’s Foreign Trade and Overseas Investment Institute (ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones) and the National Cybersecurity Institute  (Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad: INCIBE). The conference brought together Spain’s leading cybersecurity firms trading in the Colombian market, GMV to the fore.

Victor Gaspar, GMV’s Country Business Manager in Colombia, took part in an expert defense panel. After the papers there were bilateral meetings between the Spanish firms signed up for the conference and representatives from cybersecurity-demanding Colombian firms.