CONATEL establishes schedule and dates for training sessions on the protection of technological platforms

Published at: 17/08/2026 02:20 PM

The National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL), began a cycle of training and information sessions aimed at implementing the DNSSEC security protocol on the technological platforms of the ccTLD.ve (Higher Level Domain of Country Code for Venezuela) in the various institutions of the Venezuelan State.

This deployment, which is part of a sectoral care schedule, has involved the participation of the Ministries for Education, Internal Relations, Justice and Peace, Defense and Food, as well as the Strategic Operational Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB).

The days include scheduled visits and direct work sessions with the technology and security management of ministries, autonomous institutes and affiliated foundations, whose schedule includes the scheduled participation of the Ministry of Ecosocialism, Habitat and Housing, Women and Gender Equality, University Education and the Office of the Presidency and Monitoring of Government Management.

At the strategic level, this project constitutes a state policy aimed at technological sovereignty, technical autonomy and the institutional shielding of the country's critical infrastructure. In the traditional digital environment, the DNS system converts legible names (such as ministerio.gob.ve) into numerical IP addresses to allow communication between computers; however, it lacks authentication mechanisms between the sender and the receiver of the information to verify if the response was tampered with along the way.

CONATEL solves this structural vulnerability through digital cryptographic signatures, which mathematically guarantees that the identity of government portals is not impersonated or altered on the internet.

This guideline, guided by the policies of the National Government, seeks to consolidate a scheme articulated with the National Public Administration to eliminate government traffic hijacking (DNS Spoofing or Cache Poisoning) in the face of an attempt to alter records to redirect users to fraudulent servers. In that sense, the protocol detects the anomaly immediately to break the digital signature and block access.

In addition, the measure ensures that the Venezuelan State generates, manages and rotates its own cryptographic material with absolute autonomy, protecting the digital identity of institutions, the continuity of digital services and the security of the citizen when carrying out official procedures.

This work plan is projected over a 12-month period structured in four main axes: internal implementation —which after consolidating the secure signature scheme (which has already been completed) includes protocolization and technical instructions—; the elaboration of the technical standard for review, discussion, approval and official publication during the first three months; a training plan for the National Public Administration that will advance from initial awareness to technical-operational training for six months, a overcrowding scheme, in addition to automation that, based on the collection and classification of metrics, will give way to pilot deployment in the sixth month to culminate in general execution throughout the public sector at the end of the year.

With this inter-institutional action and the setting of standards for network governance, CONATEL reaffirms its commitment to articulate continuous work with all State bodies to adopt operational measures that strengthen the safe, sovereign and reliable operation of public sector technological platforms.

Mazo News Team