Parliamentarians want more coopration on cybersecurity Read More
(May 2011)

UN agencies team up to make the online world safer ITU announces significant new landmarks in the fight against cyberthreats
(May 2011)

UNODC and ITU join forces to make the Internet safer
19 May 2011 - Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of UNODC, and Hamadan I. Touré, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) signed a MoU at the ITU Headquarters in Geneva to strengthen security in the use of ICTs. Read More (May 2011)

The ITU has signed an agreement with security firm Symantec to use the vendor's technology as the basis for a quarterly Internet Security Threat Report to help governments and businesses better understand the threats that exist online. Read More (May 2011)

"Lots of times, there's confusion in these [Cybersecurity] treaty negotiations because of lack of clarity about which problems they're trying to solve" Scott Charney, Vice president of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group, spoke at the Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit (May 2010)

"Comment lutter contre la cybercriminalité?" Ms Solange Ghernouti-Hélie Professor, University of Lausanne

"The ultimate goal would be to establish a Cyberspace Treaty, which would spell out what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable behavior."  (The View from Norway), A paper on Global Cyber Deterrence - Views from China, the U.S., Russia, India, and Norway" (May 2010)

"You could have an international treaty that puts an obligation on every country to police its own cyberspace," Richard Clarke, a national security advisor to the previous three U.S. presidents, also proposed a cyber security treaty

"The ultimate goal will be to establish the cyberspace treaty which will spell out what constitutes acceptable or inacceptable behavior" Cybersecurity and Cyberspace, WSIS Forum 2010 Ms Solange Ghernouti-Hélie, Professor, University of Lausanne

The criminal conducts in cyberspace are global and a global harmonization of cybercrime legislation covering new conducts should be established in a Cyberspace Treaty. A proposal for a United Nations cyber crime treaty presented by judge Stein Schjolberg at the United Nations Crime Congress in Salvador, Brazil, April 12-19, 2010.