Cyber Information Sharing: Building Collective Security

This report details the critical act of intelligence and information sharing between stakeholders. Intelligence sharing between stakeholders is a defining feature of the cybersecurity community and one of its most important shared challenges. No stakeholder alone can sustainably identify and address all the cyber threats of the fast‑changing digital landscape. Trusted, secure and scalable cyber information sharing is essential to that end.

Information sharing enables enterprises to defend themselves, enhance resilience and conduct collaborative investigations to detect and deter threat actors. It enables building trust. Barriers, however, remain in the ecosystem, including issues such as gaps in jurisdictional collaboration, in addition to cross‑sector collaboration, lacking access to skills, strategy and resources, and concerns over trust and privacy. These barriers need to be addressed to promote greater, collective, resilience.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Cybersecurity, during the 2019‑2020 term, focused on the nature of these barriers and challenges in the security community as well as possible new solutions. The document reflects the insights generated by this group among Council Members in addition to the Centre for Cybersecurity’s extended community, including the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers.