Status:
IGF Theme(s) for workshop: Security, Openness and Privacy
Main theme question address by workshop: Question 5: What policies and practices that can assist in making the Internet an effective multistakeholder model
Concise description of the proposed workshop:
This workshop will provide a forum for discussing the ingredients for effective cybersecurity efforts in various entities: companies, Internet infrastructure providers, governments, and collaborative endeavors. There are both operational and strategic or policy measures that provide for the ability to engage in the networked environment in a secure way and to act when needed to prevent, defend against, and mitigate cyber attacks. The workshop will explore the challenges and opportunities for participants in countries at all stages of development, particularly how they can participate in the cybersecurity efforts in their own arenas and in the more global activities where collaboration on cybersecurity efforts are taking place. Where challenges and obstacles exist, the session will explore ways to pursue effective ways for engagement and collaboration that can help remove those obstacles and overcome challenges. For example, the workshop will explore enablers and incentives to promote cooperation on cybersecurity across sectors and borders. Discussion on operational ingredients can include incident response mechanisms (such as computer security incident response teams and network operations centers) and technical exchanges; discussion strategic or policy measures can include collaboration mechanisms such as public-private partnerships and transnational efforts as well as public policy and legal challenges or opportunities. The workshop will include remarks from experts from around the world with significant time for participant interaction and dialogue to ensure a truly informative discussion.
Background Paper:
Name of the organiser(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder groups:
Liesyl Franz, TechAmerica (business)
The Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative (government)
Have you, or any of your co-organisers, organised an IGF workshop before?: Yes
Please provide link(s) to workshop(s) or report(s):
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
• Representative from global business: TBD
• Representative from The Commonwealth: TBD
• Representatives from governments: Chris Painter, USA; Yurie Ito, JP-CERT, Japan
• Representative(s) from Internet infrastructure provider/technical community: Michuki Mwangi, ISOC (Africa); Bevil Wooding, PCH (Caribbean)
• Expert on international cybersecurity efforts: Andrea Rigoni, Global Cyber Security Center, Italy; Ian Brown, Oxford Internet Institute, UK
Name of Remote Moderator(s)
Anders Halvorsen, WITSA