By:
Robert Kwaku Annor
The Universal Postal Union
(UPU) has delivered a cyber resilience capacity development workshop for the
Caribbean postal and logistics sector in French Guiana, focusing on
cybersecurity threats facing postal infrastructure and strengthening regional
preparedness against cyberattacks.
The POST-ISAC Cyber
Resilience Capacity Development Workshop was as part of Caribbean
Telecommunications Union (CTU) ICT Week 2026. It was facilitated by Tracy
Hackshaw, ICT, Cyber Resilience and Digital Economy Strategist, and Mayssam
Sabra, Business Development and Capacity Building specialist, through the UPU’s
.POST Business Management Unit.
According to the CTU, the
workshop marked the first time the UPU had delivered an intervention of this
nature within the French-speaking Caribbean.
The workshop addressed
cybersecurity challenges facing postal and logistics infrastructure through
practical, sector-specific modules covering critical postal infrastructure,
cyberthreat trends, supply-chain attacks, ransomware, advanced AI-enabled threats
and social engineering.
Participants also took part
in a four-phase tabletop exercise simulating a postal-sector cyberattack,
followed by an action-planning session.
The intervention supports
the overarching theme of CTU ICT Week 2026, “Advancing Resilience, Inclusion,
Cybersecurity and Innovation in Caribbean Digital Development,” and highlights
the importance of integrating the postal sector into the region’s wider digital
resilience agenda.
The UPU also provided the
Joint CTU Executive Council and General Conference of Ministers with an update
on its cyber resilience initiatives in the Caribbean, reinforcing the
implementation of the UPU–CTU Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2023.
The agreement established a
framework for collaboration on digital transformation in Caribbean postal
services, including the promotion of .POST as a secure digital environment and
the implementation of other UPU initiatives.
