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Cybersecurity draws attention at ITU Telecom World 2013
ITU partners brace for battle against cyber threats
Bangkok, 22 November 2013 – ITU Telecom World 2013, held in
Bangkok, 19-22 November, focused attention on ‘Embracing Change in a Digital
World’, with cybersecurity a key area of interest.
The Cybersecurity Pavilion, centre stage on the ITU Telecom World 2013 show
floor, demonstrated the power and need to work together with partners to enhance
cybersecurity capabilities in the online world.
ITU’s partners ABI Research, Nuix, High Tech Bridge, The Cyber Guardian,
Symantec, the Regional Cybersecurity Centre (RCC), and the International
Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT) put together the
Cybersecurity Pavilion to showcase and disseminate information on cybersecurity-related
activities for ensuring a secure and safer digital environment.
The show floor session on Building Cybersecurity Capabilities in the
Developing World: Needs, Challenges, and the Role of Public-Private Partnerships
discussed lessons learned from ITU-IMPACT and its partners to enhance
cybersecurity and move forward in helping developing countries to build robust
cybersecurity capabilities while respecting fundamental values and the economic
importance of the Internet.
ITU and ABI Research launched the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI). A joint
effort between the ITU and ABI Research, a market intelligence company
specializing in global technology markets, the GCI will be used to measure each
country’s level of cybersecurity development and capability. “We are only as
strong as our weakest link,” said ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun I. Touré. “We
can learn from the best practice of those countries at the top of the index and
create a global culture of cooperation and support. We can’t afford not to do
this.” Data from the first sample, the Arab region, was presented, with Oman
ranking highest, with Morocco and Egypt next in line.
The ITU Security Standards workshop provided an overview of ITU’s “Standards
on Security and Identity Management” with a detailed walkthrough of the various
security standards developed by the Joint Coordination Activity on Child Online
Protection (JCA-COP) working within ITU’s standardization sector, ITU-T.
The session on Child Online Protection: VISION BYND 2015 focused on issues
related to child online safety as a follow up to the Global Youth Summit, BYND
2015 held in September 2013 in Costa Rica. The COP initiative aims to empower
youth to stay safe, to act appropriately, and to behave in the online world with
the same sense of responsibility that they behave in the offline world. First
Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan, ITU’s Child Online Protection Champion,
issued a call for action to stakeholders to improve educational resources and
materials and to facilitate the discussion with digital content creators; to
advocate the rights of freedom of speech, association and privacy online; and to
establish policies within an effective framework that would protect the use of
private data and intellectual property, and deter online criminal activity.
The Nuix Demonstration presented a Host Based Network Analysis and compared
the differences between traditional and host-based investigations. It also
provided a concise explanation of the techniques to locate network artefacts, in
order to retrieve connection data and historical information.
Today, ITU officially signed its partnership with Trend Micro to better equip
ITU’s 193 Member States, as well as more than 700 private-sector entities and
academic institutions, with the latest information to fight cyber threats
globally. Through this partnership, ITU will benefit from Trend Micro’s
institutional expertise and research. ITU and Trend Micro will distribute
co-branded information to key influencers and audiences on a regular basis.
For more information, please contact:
Sanjay Acharya
Chief, Media Relations and Public Information, ITU
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