Speaking notes from presentation delivered by Mr Shiva Bissessar at Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) 29th Annual Conference with Commercial Banks; 8th November 2018 In consideration of the topic, Financial Innovation & Inclusion in ECCU, The Cashless Transition, first, we need to address the issue of what is cashless? Payment card … Read more
***This article was originally published in June 2015 via The Trinidad Guardian & TechnewsTT. It is being republished given the reading of the Cybercrime Bill, 2017, into Parliament on 5th May 2017.*** I previously presented a partial analysis on the Trinidad & Tobago Cybercrime Bill 2014, entitled “T&T Cybercrime bill demands multi-stakeholder input” which can also … Read more
***This article was originally published in July 2014 via TechnewsTT and is being republished given the reading of the Cybercrime Bill, 2017, into Parliament on 5th May 2017.*** The case for Multi-stakeholder engagement in reviewing the Trinidad & Tobago Cybercrime Bill, 2014 Summary The Cybercrime Bill 2014 was read into Parliament by the Minister of … Read more
Over the period 6th and 7th February, 2017, it was my honour and privilege to participate in, and make contributions to, a closed expert group meeting to assess future threats as executed by a national intelligence agency. The following is the paper I presented on developing cyber security capacity to meet future challenges. Introduction … Read more
The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) in conjunction with the Commonwealth Secretariat (Secretariat) recently hosted the Caribbean Stakeholders’ Meeting II – Cyber Security and Cybercrime (CSMII) in St. Lucia over the period 16th – 19th of March 2016. The event sought to bring together senior stakeholders from various regional governments, international organisations focused on … Read more
Trinidad & Tobago’s delegation to OAS Cyber Security Colloquium. From left, Sean Fouche, IT Manger of CARICOM IMPACS; Amos Sylvester, law enforcement; Angus Smith, Manager, Trinidad and Tobago CSIRT and Wendell Diaz, Director WASA. Image credit, Shiva Bissessar The Organisation of American States (OAS) in collaboration with the Forum of Incident Response and Security … Read more
Lack of legislation cited as impediment to Caribbean cyber security. Image Credit, Shiva Bissessar (based on data from OAS June 2014 report) On Oct 26th 2015, Justice Frank Seepersad in the Trinidad & Tobago High Court made a ruling, as reported by the Daily Express, in a “revenge porn” matter noting that technology advancement on this issue … Read more
On 12th July 2015, the students of the Master of Information Systems & Technology Management (MISTM) programme at the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business were exposed to the growing global ethical debate of security vs. privacy within the context of existing local laws with an information Security dimension (as well as impending proposed … Read more
Good work by Trinidad & Tobago’s own Anita Sohan, currently on fellowship at the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) in the UK as highlighted in the CTO May 2015 newsletter: The objectives of this work programme were to give Anita experience in designing and implementing a survey for Commonwealth Member States to determine the challenges they … Read more
I was interviewed on 23/05/15 by Kejan Haynes on TV6′s “In Conclusion” for my take on the TT cybercrime bill 2015. Within the interview I alluded to certain ‘issues’ within the bill which seemed to have crept over from the model law phase. I subsequently wrote an article briefly detailing these ‘issues’ which was carried … Read more