4 May, 2022
Hybrid (Campus Biotech, Université de Genève and Online), Switzerland
Masterclass: “What is the role of philanthropy in advancing cyberpeace” ?
The proliferation of cloud-based technologies coupled with the move to remote work during the pandemic has dramatically increased the attack surface for cybercriminals. Overall, more than 50 per cent of NGOs now report that a cyberattack has targeted them. One of the reasons is that nonprofits often possess valuable data about donors, clients and employees but may be less likely than for-profit organisations to have modern cybersecurity programs in place.
These factors combine to create a perfect storm for both philanthropies and nonprofits trying to keep up. To thwart malicious actors, organisations in the philanthropy space need to focus on standard security practices and their unique vulnerabilities, from the bottom to the top.
What kinds of attacks are nonprofits facing? Why ensure proper cybersecurity programs is critical for nonprofit funders? How could philanthropy actors contribute to changing cyberspace and shape cyberpeace?
Those questions will be addressed by Fabien Leimgruber and Ottavia Galuzzi from the CyberPeace Institute, along with Prof. Giuseppe Ugazio, from the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations Chair in Behavioural Philanthropy (University of Geneva).
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9-10 May 2022
Podgorica, Montenegro
DCAF Regional Conference on Cybersecurity Capacity Building
The Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF) is organising In cooperation with the Ministry of Public Administration of the Government of Montenegro its Regional Conference on Cybersecurity Capacity Building. The event will take place the 9-10 May 2022, in Podgorica, Montenegro. The conference is organised within 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).
This conference will gather cybersecurity experts from the Western Balkan region and across Europe. It aims to provide those involved in cybersecurity trainings an opportunity to exchange best practices, ideas and experiences on planning cybersecurity education, on improving cyber-readiness through strategic training and on-the-job learning of cybersecurity experts, in developing university-level courses in cybersecurity and educational programmes for high school students, as well as explore new opportunities of regional cooperation.
9 Jun, 2022
San Francisco, United States
RSA Conference 2022 | USA
RSA Conference is where the cybersecurity world comes together. For four days, you’ll gain insights, join conversations and experience solutions that could make a huge impact on your organization and your career. With so much change happening in the industry, the RSA Conference will help you stay ahead of it all. It will take place in San Francisco, but a Digital Pass is also available for those who cannot attend live.
Organisation
14-16 June 2022
European Cyber Agora
The European Cyber Agora is a multi-stakeholder platform bridging the gap between government, civil society and industry across Europe to shape the European cybersecurity policy agenda and identify European perspectives on global cybersecurity policy debates. It promotes collaboration across sectors including diverse voices and contributes to evidence-based cybersecurity policymaking through research-based and outcome-oriented engagement.
8 - 9 November 2022
The Hague, Netherlands (the)
Conference on International Cyber Security: Navigating Narratives in Cyberspace
Cyberspace is determined by the narrative that tells its story. Therefore, how do narratives shape and influence cyber conflict, the way we see it, and how we analyse it? How do narratives influence the way we think about the governance mechanisms related to cyber conflict: the role, potential and limits of law, norms, and state behaviour?
This first annual academic conference of The Hague Program on International Cyber Security continues the tradition of the annual conferences of The Hague Program for Cyber Norms. The conference continues the work of the annual series organised by The Hague Program for Cyber Norms in its four previous editions. These conferences have become a key multidisciplinary venue for peer-reviewed research in the study of cyber security and international stability. See our website for the program and impressions of the previous editions of the conference in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
30 Mar, 2022
Online
SADC Cybersecurity Maturity Study Launch
The Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa will launch the SADC Cybersecurity Maturity Study Launch on 30 March.
The study was carried out in collaboration with the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC) at the University of Oxford and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), with the aim to provide an empirical analysis of cybersecurity capacities in the region.
The result is an in-depth analysis of the status of cybersecurity maturity at a regional level, analysed across the five dimensions of the Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Model for Nations (CMM):
• Dimension 1: Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy
• Dimension 2: Cybersecurity Culture and Society
• Dimension 3: Building Cybersecurity Knowledge and Capabilities
• Dimension 4: Cybersecurity Legal and Regulatory Frameworks
• Dimension 5: Cybersecurity Standards and Technologies
The findings suggest that the region is at a lower maturity level compared to the rest of the world on all dimensions. While this is not good news, these findings provide a clear basis for prioritising the building of cybersecurity capacity across the region. SADC countries find themselves predominantly at start-up or formative levels of cybersecurity maturity. The major differences in maturity between the SADC region and the rest of world were in the trust and confidence in online services (Dimension 2), the legal frameworks of cybersecurity (Dimension 4), and in national incident response (Dimension 1).
6 Apr, 2022
Global Policy Dialogue and Briefing: Cybersecurity Strategy Design and Implementation
The World Bank and ITU are co-organizing a Global Policy Dialogue and Briefing on Cybersecurity Strategy Design and Implementation to highlight the importance of designing, implementing and maintaining a national cybersecurity strategy (NCS). The main objective is to support national leaders and policymakers in the ongoing development, establishment, and implementation of national cybersecurity strategies and policies.
The event will be held virtually April 6:
• 8:00 am – 10:00 am CEST for Asia and the Pacific
• 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm CEST for Africa, Americas, Arab Region, Europe & CIS.
The first hour of each session will focus on Designing and Implementing Cybersecurity Strategies, with representatives from demand and supply countries in terms of cybersecurity capacities. The second hour will be a NCS Masterclass that will introduce the second edition of the Guide to Developing a National Cybersecurity Strategy, present its features and possibilities for implementation.
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10 Mar, 2022
Online
Community Talk #2 on Cyber Diplomacy, Season 2: Cyber attribution: it’s complicated (?)
Cyber attribution: it’s complicated (?)
A series of multi-stakeholder community talks on global cyber-issues is back soon with season 2. For season 2, our goal continues to focus on helping the private sector and technical community learn more about the UN cyber-dialogue (the UN OEWG), and how they could support UN Member States in maintaining international security and peace. We thus aim to close the gap that exists between different professionals in building cyber-stability.
Three simple questions to the experts will identify:
(i) How, conceptually, do the three dimensions – technical, legal and political – in cyber attribution intertwine with each other?
(ii) What are existing good practices in conducting cyber attribution (on all three ‘fronts’: technical, legal and political)?
(iii) What are the challenges and limitations in conducting cyber attribution, including making attribution public (on all three fronts)?
The Talk #2 titled as ‘Cyber attribution: it’s complicated (?)’ will feature the following great experts:
• Nathalie Jaarsma, Ambassador at-Large for Security and Cyber, the Kingdom of the Netherlands;
• Stefan Soesanto, Senior Cyber Defense Researcher, CSS/ETH Zurich
• Ivan Kwiatkowski, Senior Security Researcher, the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT), Kaspersky; and
• Fabio Cristiano, Postdoctoral researcher at the Hague Program on International Cyber Security, the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, as a discussant.
What are the community talks?
A limited series of semi-formal discussions between diplomats, security researchers, technologists, academia, law enforcement professionals and all others who work to keep cyberspace stable and secure.
Organisation
6 - 10 June, 2022
Online
RightsCon 2022
The 11th edition of RightsCon will take place from Monday, June 6 to Friday, June 10, 2022 online and across all timezones.
Organisation
31 May - 3 June 2022
Tallin, Estonia, Estonia
14th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon)
The annual International Conference on Cyber Conflict, CyCon, hosted by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence addresses the most relevant issues concerning the cyber defence community. Entering its second decade, CyCon has established itself as a prominent multidisciplinary conference and community-building event for cyber security professionals from around the world, while at the same time adhering to the highest standards of academic research.
Throughout the years, CyCon has presented keynotes and panels focusing on the technical, legal, policy, strategy and military perspectives of cyber defence and security. Each year, around 600 decision-makers, opinion-leaders, law and technology experts from the governments, military, academia and industry of nearly 50 countries meet at CyCon to address current cyber security challenges in an interdisciplinary manner.
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24 Mar, 2022
Brussels & Online, Belgium
The 9th European Cyber Security Conference 2022
The European Cyber Security Conference returns to Brussels & Online this March for its 9th Edition! Gathering leading policy-makers, industry players, high level cyber security and defence experts, this Forum Europe conference, organised in partnership with the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO), will explore Europe’s response to cyber security issues in a dynamically evolving global risk landscape and what the next steps for all actors of the ecosystem should be to create a safe and secure environment allowing Europe to leverage the tremendous socio-economic benefits offered by digital technologies.
Organisation
24 - 25 May 2022
Brussels, Belgium
EU Cyber Act Conference
The 2022 International Conference on the EU Cybersecurity Act has been developed to help standards community prepare for the evolution of risk-based frameworks meant to address market fragmentation in the EU. The EU Cybersecurity Act, now in the early stages of development, will eventually create a wide-ranging, independent European body of cybersecurity regulation as part of the “single digital market” goal. This landmark regulatory mandate will have a wide-ranging effect on the international standards community—now is the time to begin planning for and participating in ongoing changes.
The Cybersecurity Act will establish a European cybersecurity certification framework for ICT products, services and processes. The conference will cover the potential effects on current schemes and regulatory mandates, as well as new potential candidate schemes for key industry verticals such as IoT, cloud, communications, payments, automotive, and more. Topics include 5G Standards, IoT Schemes, Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Automation Control Systems (IACS), ETSI EN 303645, CEN/CENELEC JTC13 WG3, EUCC, Union Rolling Work Programme (URWP), NIS Directive, Cloud Standards, Lightweight Standards, IACS, SESIP, Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL), and Global Platform.
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28 February - 11 March 2022
New York (US) & Online
UN Ad-Hoc Committee on Cybercrime – First Session
In accordance with General Assembly resolution 75/282 and with General Assembly decision 76/552, the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes, established by the General Assembly in its resolution 74/247, will hold its first session at United Nations Headquarters (UNHQ) in New York, United States of America, from 28 February to 11 March 2022.
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2 Mar, 2022
Online
What Future for International Cybercrime Cooperation ? – LIVE STREAMED EVENT
18:00-19:00 UTC / 13:00-14:00 EST
A new United Nation (UN) process will officially begin on February 28, 2022 – the negotiation of the new cybercrime convention, as established by UN General Assembly resolution 74/247. This negotiation is unique in the UN context, as it represents the first-time states are negotiating a binding framework for cyberspace. As such it has the potential to dramatically change – for either better or worse – how the internet operates. It is likely to touch on the role of states in regulating the online world, seek to enhance cross border cooperation, and challenge how human rights are implemented online.
On Wednesday, 2 March 2021 at 13:00 EST / 18:00 UTC, the Let’sTalkCyber Initiative will be hosting an online panel discussion jointly organised by EU Cyber Direct and Chatham House titled: “What Future for International Cybercrime Cooperation?”. In this panel, we hope to hear from those charged with overseeing the negotiation to understand the process and identify opportunities for non-governmental stakeholders – industry, civil society, and academia, to provide input and help governments understand the impact of specific provisions. We also hope to hear more about the issues at stake from those who have been following adoption of similar frameworks at the national level. The main purpose of any law against cybercrime should be to protect targets and victims of cybercrime, offer effective remedies and an adequate set of human rights safeguards. Can this treaty provide that, and if so, how?
3 Mar, 2022
Online, Kenya
“A study paper on human-centred cybersecurity: Kenyan FinTech sector” Launch Event
2.00 pm – 3.30 pm CET (4.00 pm – 5.30 pm EAT)
Launch of “A study paper on human-centred cybersecurity: Kenyan FinTech sector” authored by KICTANet and commissioned by Trust4Cyber-Flagship.
This study maps the cybersecurity landscape in Kenya with a focus on the financial sector, and advocates for a human-centric approach in cybersecurity in the sector. It also provides the Kenyan country context in legislation, stakeholders, and the financial sector noting the increased access, use and adoption of ICTs in the country facilitating digital payments and e - commerce.
Agenda
- Welcoming – Salomé Eggler, Head of Digital Transformation Centre Kenya
- Presentation of the outcomes / recommendations of the study paper – Ali Hussein, Chairman Board of Trustees at Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) and Executive Board Member at Africa Fintech Network,
- Commenting of recommendations from different sectors
o Government (Communications Authority Kenya)
o Civil society (Nanjira Sambuli, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
o Private Sector (Catherine Muraga, Stanbic Bank)
- Q+ A
- Closing – Deborah Klein, Trust4Cyber-Flagship
