Global Centre for Cybersecurity
World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced a new Global Centre for Cybersecurity, in a bid to safeguard the world from hackers and growing data breaches — especially from nation-states. — the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Wednesday announced a new Global Centre for Cybersecurity.
The centre has its headquarter in Geneva.
Global Centre for Cybersecurity offers first platform for governments, companies and international organizations to diminish the impact of malicious activities on web.
The aim of the centre is to establish the first global platform for governments, businesses, experts and law enforcement agencies to collaborate on cybersecurity challenges. As a truly borderless problem, cyber-attacks are surpassing the capacities and institutions that are currently dealing with this threat in an isolated manner. Only through collaboration, information exchange and common standards can the global community successfully counter organized digital crime.
The centre will focus on the following aims:
Consolidating existing cybersecurity initiatives of the World Economic Forum
Establishing an independent library of cyber best practices
Helping partners to enhance knowledge on cybersecurity
Working towards an appropriate and agile regulatory framework on cybersecurity
Serving as a laboratory and early-warning think tank for future cybersecurity scenarios
