Eurasian Economic Union --- Another interesting regional endeavor on cyber security is the once carried out by the Eurasian Economic Union (made up of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, and Russia). The EAEU also sees the digital economy as essential for economic growth. It adopted a document titled “Main Directions of the Digital Agenda of the EAEU by 2025.” The union collaborated with the World Bank in 2016 to undertake a review of the digital economy framework of member states. Not surprisingly, the review showed that to be successful, the region’s digital economy architecture must be developed adhering to high-security standards. The World Bank recommended to “create institutions and procedures aimed at solving issues of digital security, preparing for cyberattacks, combating cybercrime, and increasing general public confidence in the digital ecosystems underlying the digital economy.”( https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/850581522435806724/pdf/EAEU-Overview-Full-ENG-Final.pdf) An essential task of member states will be to even the ground. There are countries with a very developed cyber security infrastructure (Russia was ranked in the Global Cyber security Index of 2020) and others that lag (Tajikistani was ranked 128).

Source author: Juan Feliciano Ascencio Moctezuma jascencio@sre.gob.mx