CYBERCRIME AND THE INSECURITY OF AUTOMATED INFORMATION SYSTEMS DUE TO THE LACK OF DETECTION AND CONTROL OF COMPUTER INCIDENTS

Abstract

In 2019, Ecuador was the victim of a computer attack in which the personal data of the vast majority of Ecuadorian citizens were obtained. In the year 2021, the public company Corporación Nacional de Telecomunicaciones CNT, was the victim of a cyberattack using a computer virus called ransomware, hijacking the information of this company, denoting that the problem lay in the lack of public policies and technological infrastructure that allow a government that reduces the vulnerability of automated information systems in Ecuador. In this virtue, it was proposed as a research objective, to establish how the lack of detection and control of computer incidents influences the insecurity of automated information systems that allow the commission of cybercrimes. Within the qualitative research, the following methods were used: Historical-logical and analytical-synthetic, which was applied to the different definitions determined to frame the use of Information and Communication Technologies in cybercrime, as well as the state obligation to a government. secure email. Concluding that since cybersecurity is a set of tools that safeguards information through the use of guidelines, methods and practices to protect information, it is of paramount importance to design a strategic plan for the formation of an entity for the detection and control of computer incidents, to so that the violation of automated information systems can be significantly reduced.