ITU Membership has been calling for a greater role to be played by ITU in matters relating to cybersecurity through various Resolutions, Decisions, Programmes and Recommendations:

• Resolution 71 of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (Antalya, 2006)
  This Resolution outlines the Strategic Plan for the Union for 2008-2011, including its mission and nature, strategic orientations and goals and detailed objectives for the Sectors. Under Goal 4, ITU should specifically engage in “developing tools, based on contributions from the membership, to promote end-user confidence, and to safeguard the efficiency, security, integrity and interoperability of networks”, with information and communication network efficiency and security defined as including, inter alia, spam, cybercrime, viruses, worms and Denial-of-Service attacks. Under Objective 3, ITU General Secretariat has been tasked to facilitate the internal coordination of activities among the three Sectors where work programmes are overlapping or are related, so as to assist the membership in ensuring that it benefits from the full complement of expertise available within the Union.
   
• Resolution 130 of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (Revised, Antalya, 2006)
  “Strengthening the role of ITU in building confidence and security in the use of information and communication technologies”
   
• Doha Action Plan Programme 3 of World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC 2006) Programme 3
  “E-strategies and ICT applications”, “Cybersecurity: Enhance security and build confidence in the use of ICT applications”
   
• Resolution 2 of the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (Doha, 2006)
  Annex 2 of Resolution 2 resolves that Study Group 1 will study the Question 22/1 “Securing information and communication networks: best practices for developing a culture of cybersecurity.”
   
• Resolution 50 of the ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (Florianopolis, 2004)
  “Cybersecurity.”
   
• Resolution 149 of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (Antalya, 2006)
  “Study of definitions and terminology relating to building confidence and security in the use of information and communication technologies”.
   
• ITU-T Recommendation X.509
  Public-key and attribute certificate frameworks (global standard on identity management)”.
   
• ITU-T X.8xx Series Recommendations
  Global standards on key security aspects including authentication, access control, non-repudiation, confidentiality, integrity, audits and security architecture for systems providing end-to-end communications.
   
• Resolution 45 of the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (Doha, 2006)
  Mechanisms for enhancing cooperation on cybersecurity, including combating spam”.
   
• Resolution 51 of the ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (Florianopolis, 2004)
  “Combating spam”.
   
• Resolution 52 of the ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (Florianopolis, 2004)
  “Countering spam by technical means”.
   
• ITU-R Recommendation M. 1457
  Security mechanisms incorporated in IMT-2000”.
   
• ITU-R Recommendation S.1711
  “Performance enhancements of transmission control protocol over satellite networks”.
   
• ITU-R Recommendation M. 1645
  “Framework and overall objectives of the future development of IMT 2000 and systems beyond IMT 2000”
   
• ITU-R Recommendation M. 1223
  “Evaluation of security mechanisms for IMT-2000”.
   
• ITU-R Recommendation S.1250
  “Network management architecture for digital satellite systems forming part of SDH transport networks in the fixed-satellite service “.
   
• ITU-R Recommendation M. 1078
  “Security principles for IMT-2000”.