23rd-24th April 2024
European Cyber Agora
The European Cyber Agora Conference returns in 2024 with a renewed commitment to fostering cross-sectoral dialogue and collaboration in the face of evolving digital challenges. Building on the successes of previous years, this conference stands as a pivotal platform for addressing the pressing issues at the intersection of technology, policy, and geopolitics.
18 Apr, 2024
Online
Exploring African ccTLDs: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
In recent years, the digital landscape in Africa has been rapidly evolving, with the Internet playing a pivotal role in shaping socio-economic development across the continent. One pivotal aspect of this evolution is the use of Country Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs). ccTLDs is crucial in defining a nation's online presence and digital identity. This webinar delves into the trends, challenges, and opportunities surrounding African ccTLDs, shedding light on their significance in the continent's digital journey.
At the end of the webinar, participants will:
Gain insights into the current trends and developments shaping the African ccTLD landscape. This includes aspects such as registration patterns, domain growth, market dynamics, and emerging technologies impacting ccTLD management.
Understand common challenges faced by African ccTLD registries, such as regulatory hurdles, technical infrastructure limitations, cybersecurity concerns, and competition from generic TLDs.
Uncover the diverse opportunities offered by African ccTLDs, through case studies and expert analysis. This includes leveraging domains for economic development, promoting local content and businesses, fostering digital innovation, enhancing online security and trust, and contributing to a vibrant digital ecosystem across the continent.
Gain insights into the policy frameworks governing ccTLD management and governance in Africa, as well as the importance of collaboration and partnership in enhancing ccTLD ecosystems, equipping participants to engage in policy discourse and collaborative endeavors
April 17, 2024
Online
Cybersecurity risks in social media: Remedies and solutions
In the digital age, social media platforms have become integral parts of daily life, facilitating communication, networking, and information sharing on a global scale. However, alongside the benefits, these platforms also pose significant cybersecurity risks, ranging from privacy breaches and data theft to identity fraud and cyberbullying. To address these challenges effectively, it is crucial to raise awareness about cybersecurity risks in social media and explore practical remedies and solutions to safeguard individuals, businesses, and organisations.
Objectives:
Raise awareness: Shed light on the various cybersecurity risks associated with social media usage and their potential consequences.
Identify vulnerabilities: Discuss common vulnerabilities and loopholes in social media platforms that can be exploited by cybercriminals.
Explore remedies: Examine effective strategies and best practices for mitigating cybersecurity risks in social media, including encryption, authentication measures, and privacy settings.
Discuss solutions: Share insights into emerging technologies and tools designed to enhance cybersecurity in social media, such as AI-driven threat detection and incident response systems.
Foster collaboration: Encourage collaboration and knowledge-sharing among cybersecurity professionals, social media users, and platform developers to collectively combat cybersecurity threats.
Key Topics:
Overview of cybersecurity risks in social media
Common threats and vulnerabilities
Best practices for securing social media accounts
Emerging technologies for cybersecurity in social media
Case studies and real-life examples
Regulatory framework and compliance
User education and awareness programmes
The webinar on ‘Cybersecurity Risks in Social Media: Remedies and Solutions’ aims to provide a comprehensive platform for discussing and addressing the evolving challenges posed by cyber threats in social media. By fostering collaboration and sharing expertise, we can work towards creating a safer and more secure online environment for all of us.
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April 17, 2024 - April 18, 2024
Rome, Italy
Cyber Crime Conference
Sessions are either in English or Italian
2023 closes with alarming data about cybersecurity, all the main authorities in the field confirm the growing trends of cyber attacks and the dangers of a security posture that is often still too weak to reject them.
As a result, the debate on the subject is becoming increasingly heated, as demonstrated by the new regulations (from the UN Treaty on cybercrime to the European AIA) aimed at protecting personal data and Strategic Digital Infrastructures from new threats, as well as managing the central role assumed by Artificial Intelligence both in terms of attacks and defense tools.
Like every year, our B2B events will contribute to this debate by connecting the most relevant stakeholders with each other. Large industry and SMEs, representatives of institutions and experts from the academic world will meet again to share information, goals and good practices in the sector.
Spread over two days, the event will be opened by multi-voice panels and will continue with individual speeches by professionals, researchers and representatives of the IT Industry, who will explore the most current challenges. While at the exhibition area it will be possible to learn about and test the best security solutions on the market through one-to-one meetings and hands-on areas set up by the sponsoring companies.
An unmissable opportunity for anyone who wants to keep up with a evolving risk landscape, a place for discussion between a qualified audience and authoritative speakers where they can concretely explore the problems and solutions of security in the ICT field; All in a stimulating context and totally free of charge.
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April 16, 2024
Geneva & Online, Switzerland
2024 Cyber Dialogues: Part III
The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) is pleased to invite you to the third session of the 2024 Cyber Dialogues.
Calls for gender responsive, tailored, sustainable, effective, and efficient cyber capacity-building continue to intensify from diplomats, policymakers, and technical experts. With high-level discussions on mainstreaming gender within other pillars of the framework and initiatives, the dialogues will convene all relevant stakeholders to share viewpoints. Key questions include:
How can all stakeholders meaningfully mainstream gender perspectives across all the pillars of the framework for responsible State behavior, and are there practical examples to learn from?
What do these calls for gender responsive, tailored, sustainable, effective, and efficient cyber capacity building mean and how can it be meaningfully operationalized?
How can we mainstream gender in norm implementation?
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April 9, 2024
Online
Tools used by CSIRT/SOC
We invite you to join us for a 1-hour webinar which will cover the key tools that are often used by CSIRTs and SOCs all around the world. The webinar will provide an introduction to and review of key use-cases for RTIR, MISP, IntelMQ and Shuffle.
The webinar is free of charge, however, we ask you to register for it.
Start is at 2pm CET.
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March 26, 2024
Online
Compendium on Mainstreaming Cybersecurity in Development
Join us for the unveiling of the Compendium on Mainstreaming Cybersecurity in Development, a collaborative effort led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, the International Telecommunication Union, the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise, and Microsoft.
This compendium is a collaborative effort driven by a shared vision: to bridge the gap between the cyber resiliency capacity building communities and the development cooperation communities, with the objective of mainstreaming cybersecurity into the broader framework of development work, particularly the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The compendium builds on a series of workshops and engagements held across the globe, bringing together expertise from government, industry, and international organizations. By bringing together cyber resiliency capacity building actors and development practitioners in diverse settings, from Accra, Singapore, New York, Paris to Kyoto, we have gained valuable insights, identified new challenges, and discovered new opportunities for collaboration.
20th-22nd March 2024
Durres, Albania
Balkans Cybersecurity Days
Jointly organized by DCAF in collaboration with AKCESK and FIRST, the event will take place from March 20-22, 2024, in Durrës, Albania, the event will be bringing together cybersecurity professionals from the public and private sectors, the agenda includes a high-level opening, a panel on promoting cybersecurity talent, and plenary sessions in response to FIRST’s call for papers. Days two and three feature technical training sessions.
This event is organized within the framework of DCAF's regional project, ‘Good Governance in Cybersecurity in the Western Balkans,’ funded by the United Kingdom’s Government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCDO).
March 19, 2024
Geneva & Online, Switzerland
2024 Cyber Dialogues: Part II
The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) is pleased to invite you to the second session of the 2024 Cyber Dialogues.
This second dialogue will convene diplomats, policymakers and members of the multistakeholder community to discuss the cumulative and evolving rules, norms and principles of responsible State behaviour in the use of ICTs. The discussions will support means of addressing interconnected issues, including the protection of vulnerable sectors, promoting integrity, stability and security of the supply chain, preventing the proliferation of malicious ICT tools and techniques, and enhancing private sector collaboration in the security of and in the use of ICTs, and the implications for national norm implementation. Key questions include:
How can we meaningfully understand the differentiated roles and responsibilities of States vis-à-vis non-State stakeholders in norm implementation efforts?
How can we understand the inter-connected nature of norms and their ability to help States respond to varied ICT incidents?
How can national and regional implementation of norms contribute to narrowing the digital divide?
19 Mar, 2024
Brussels, Belgium
11th Annual European Cyber Security Conference
The 11th Annual European Cyber Security Conference will gather policymakers, industry players, high level cyber security and defence experts to explore Europe’s response to cyber and hybrid security issues in what has become a dynamically evolving global risk landscape.
A key component of this event for cyber capacity building practitioners is that a key theme of the day will be the importance of strengthening Cyber Security Cooperation Mechanisms by boosting collaboration, between Member States and with allies, in cybersecurity, defence, and diplomacy.
