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Drill to tighten global network in fight against cyber
attacks
ITU-IMPACT and Turkey collaborate in international cybersecurity exercise
Geneva, 20 May 2014 – A cybersecurity drill was held in
Istanbul, Turkey, 15-16 May 2014 aimed at strengthening international
cybersecurity preparedness. Organized jointly by the International
Telecommunication Union and the International Multilateral Partnership Against
Cyber Threats (ITU-IMPACT), together with Turkey’s Ministry of Transport,
Maritime Affairs and Communications and the Information and Communication
Technologies Authority (ICTA), this first international cyber drill in Turkey
attracted the participation of 19 countries – Albania, Angola, Azerbaijan,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Georgia, Iran, Italy, Jordan,
Lithuania, Malaysia, Romania, Sri Lanka, Senegal, Spain, Sudan, Turkey, and
Ukraine.
The International Cyber Shield Exercise (ICSE) aims to bring together
national Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) practitioners, senior government
officials, cybersecurity experts, industry players and other stakeholder groups
from ICT across the world under one roof. ICSE 2014 primarily provided a
platform for information sharing on key aspects pertaining to cybersecurity with
particular emphasis on effective incident handling and international cooperation
among the various stakeholders.
The event saw presentations from distinguished cybersecurity experts as well
as workshops on Forensic Science and Investigation, Mobile Security and
Standardization in Cybersecurity, and Child Online Protection (COP).
Participating national CIRTs engaged in a series of real-life cyber threat
simulations to assess their incident handling capability.
“We are living in a hyperconnected world where we remain as strong as our
weakest link,” said ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun I. Touré. “We will continue
to work towards building a global movement for global cybersecurity. In order to
meet this goal, we need the right tools and measures not only to protect
ourselves but also to test the effectiveness of our cybersecurity armour.”
“The cyber drill in Turkey provided a specialized platform for technical
experts from CIRTs to acquire more know-how and to test the capabilities
attributed to their CIRTs through simulation-of-attack scenarios,” said Brahima
Sanou, Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau. “Attack
simulations aim to assist countries in developing and implementing operational
procedures in response to various cyber incidents, and to identify future
planning and process improvements.”
“Bringing together national CIRTs, key cybersecurity stakeholders and
industry experts at the same venue allows countries to grasp the importance of
public-private partnership as an integral part of the international network in
the fight against cyber threats,” said Datuk Mohd Noor Amin, Chairman of IMPACT.
ITU-IMPACT has so far conducted six cyber drills, involving more than 70
countries.
Details of the event are available at
www.icse2014.org
For more information, please contact:
Sanjay Acharya
Chief, Media Relations and Public Information,
ITU
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Philip Victor
Director, Policy and
International Cooperation,
IMPACT
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About IMPACT
The International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber
Threats (IMPACT) was established in 2008 as the first United Nations-backed
global platform that brings together governments, industry and academia in the
fight against cyber threats. Through a formal legal agreement signed in Geneva
in 2011, IMPACT has been instrumental in supporting the global cybersecurity
mandate of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a specialised agency
of the United Nations. In its role as ITU’s cybersecurity partner, IMPACT
provides ITU’s 193 member states access to expertise, facilities and resources
to effectively address cyber threats, as well as assisting, as required, United
Nations agencies in protecting their ICT infrastructures. With 149 countries as
partners, ITU-IMPACT is the world’s largest cybersecurity alliance of its kind.
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