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first meeting of the Global Cybersecurity Experts Group (High-Level Experts Group of the Global Cybersecurity Agenda) was held in Geneva to lay the groundwork for a global response to the ever-changing nature of cyber threats and the increasing sophistication of cybercriminals.
The meeting was attended by almost 60 experts representing government and commercial organizations, academic and research institutes, as well as regional and international organizations from around the world. Leaders of the groups were appointed to take on the development of a further strategy. These are specialists from Morocco, Malaysia, Estonia and other countries.
“The legal, technical and institutional problems posed by cyber threats and cybercrime are global and have serious consequences, they can only be solved on the basis of a coherent strategy,” said Hamadoun Touré, Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), at the opening of the meeting.
During the meeting, a consensus was reached on the next steps to be taken to implement the Global Cybersecurity Agenda. From among the experts, managers were appointed for each of the five specific work areas.
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1. Legal framework . District Court Judge in Moss (Norway) Stein Schjolberg (Stein Schjolberg).
2. Technical and procedural measures . JaakTepandi, professor of science-intensive systems at the Informatics Institute of Tallinn University of Technology, and Justin Rattner, Chief Technology Officer, Intel Corporation.
3. Organizational structures . Secretary General of the Postal Service, Telecommunications and Information Technology (DEPTTI) Morocco Taib Debbagh.
4. Capacity building . Ivar Tallo, Senior Fellow, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Program.
5. International cooperation . Director of Security, Trust Building and Management at the Consumer Safety and Networks Division of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (Shamsul Jafni Shafie).
The results of this group will be five strategic reports that will be integrated into a global roadmap on how best to achieve the objectives of the Global Cybersecurity Program, which will be presented to the ITU Secretary General.
“While the parent organization of the UN
holds meetings in the framework of the Internet Governance Forum, the International Telecommunication Union lays the real foundations of the future World Wide Web,” said Yevgeny Altovsky, expert of the UNESCO WOO UNESCO “Information for All”. He also questioned the credibility of the experts listed above and added that “authoritative experts can take part in the preparation of strategic reports, and their recommendations are in time formed in the form of an international agreement. This will be a sign of the beginning of the creation of the real “Internet government”, that is, an organization or an expert group that will decide what is good for the Internet and what is bad and how to fight the latter. ”
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