Establishment of Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) in the Kyrgyz Republic

The CIRT has a key role to play in supporting the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic in addressing cybersecurity-related issues at the national level as this pertains to preparing for, detecting, managing, and responding to cyber incidents if and when they occur. However, implementing an incident management mechanism requires consideration for funding, human resources, training, technological capability, government and private sector relationships, and legal requirements. 

Taking the foregoing into consideration, developing countries, with limited human, institutional and financial resources face particular challenges in elaboration and implementation of national policies and frameworks for cybersecurity and critical information infrastructure protection. This project is expected to increase national cybersecurity capacity while moving forward on enhancing regional and international collaboration. The main goal of the project is to assist the Ministry of Digital Development of the Kyrgyz Republic (MDD), to assess their current cybersecurity capabilities and to establish its Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT), to serve as a trusted, central coordination point of contact for cybersecurity, aimed at identifying, defending responding and managing cyber threats.