National CSIRT in a small country: The Bahamas case
The Bahamas is an island nation in the Lucayan Archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. It may be small in terms of population, but not in terms of number of islands. The country has been working hard to improve its cyber resilience and we spoke to Sametria Mckinney, National Computer Incident Response Team of The Bahamas (CIRT-BS) Director, about the journey she and her team have been on so far.
In the interview with Sametria we discuss the following:
- How was the need for the national CSIRT recognised and what role does CIRT-BS cybersecurity ecosystem?
- What steps were taken in order to identify the key responsibilities and services of the CSIRT?
- The benefits of being members of various international and regional cybersecurity organisations
- Key challenges when establishing the Centre and lessons learnt
- Setting KPIs
- Process automation and inspiration for doing so
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