Partner Description: Through the cyber security program NUPI seeks to bridge the gap between the technical community and the policy world with research focusing primarily on the political dimension of cybersecurity. Through NUPI’s Centre for Cyber Security Studies we are concerned with norms and state behavior in cyber space, development assistance and capacity building, societal vulnerabilities, sovereignty and cyberspace, global governance and cyberspace. They track new developments in cybersecurity, and provide academic studies, expert analysis and strategic policy recommendations. NUPI’s focus on Cybersecurity and Developing Countries aims to systematically explore cybersecurity risks and assess cyber capacity building in developing countries. They provide academic publications as well as policy briefs on global implications and challenges pertaining to cyber security, and on risks and opportunities for donors countries, NGOs and international organizations to assist developing countries with cyber security capacity building. The aim is to provide a critical analysis of how to accomplish and improve cyber capacity building in practice.NUPI seeks to enhance the understanding of today’s increased dependency on a functional cyberspace and what this entails in terms of vulnerabilities, crime and conflict. Another area of focus is on International governance and regulation, with particular emphasis on the private sector and the dependence on them to providing cyber security nationally and internationally. Through their extensive international and national network within cybersecurity we work with a wide range of global partners, including governments, military, international organizations, academia and the private sector. NUPI organizes several seminars and events aimed at enhancing public awareness and knowledge of the various challenges associated with cyber security in Norway as well as internationally.

GFCE Member Since: 13 July 2018

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Partner Description: New America is a Washington DC-based think tank and civic enterprise committed to renewing policy, prosperity, and purpose in the Digital Age. New America’s cybersecurity capacity building work seeks to link the cybersecurity community and the international development community, and infuse the practice of cybersecurity capacity building with data to help identify the most effective means of building capacity by leveraging its empirical research and convening power. This work is supported by the United Kingdom’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Hewlett Foundation, Microsoft and, through a wider capacity building partnership, Florida International University.

GFCE Member Since: 12 May 2017

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills

Partner Description: NASSCOM is the apex body for the 181 billion dollar IT BPM industry in India. While spearheading initiatives at local, national and global levels. it has supported the industry towards seeking trust, credibility and respect from varied stakeholders across 600 destinations in 80 countries. Today the association has more than 2500 members in its fold which together account for 90% of the industry’s revenue. Being a part of NASSCOM, one also has access to Data Security Council of India (DSCI) and the Future Skills platform. The former is committed to making the cyberspace safe, secure and trusted by establishing best practices, standards and initiatives. To further its objectives, DSCI engages with governments and their agencies, regulators, industry sectors, industry associations and think tanks for policy advocacy, thought leadership, capacity building and outreach activities. On the other hand, Future Skills, an industry utility, has a vision to accelerate India’s journey to build skills and become the global talent hub in emerging technologies. It is estimated that the industry will require 1.5 – 2 million digitally trained people in the next 5 – 7 years, a goal massive enough to need catalysts such as Future Skills, a NASSCOM initiative.

GFCE Member Since: 15 March 2019

Partner Description: With a unique vantage point working across federal, state and local governments, as well as industry and academia, MITRE works in the public interest to discover new possibilities, create unexpected opportunities, and lead by pioneering together for public good to bring innovative ideas into existence in areas such as AI, intuitive data science, quantum information science, health informatics, policy and economic expertise, trustworthy autonomy, cyber threat sharing, and cyber resilience.MITRE’s mission-driven teams are dedicated to solving problems for a safer world.

GFCE Member Since: 1 March 2016

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Partner Description: The Meridian Process aims to exchange ideas and initiate actions for the cooperation of governmental bodies on Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP) issues globally. It explores the benefits and opportunities of cooperation between governments and provides an opportunity to share best practices from around the world. The Meridian Process emerged from the first Meridian Conference, hosted in the UK in 2005 and the subsequent conferences held in Hungary, Sweden, Singapore, the United States of America, Taiwan, Qatar, Germany, Argentina, Japan, and Spain in October 2015.

GFCE Member Since: 12 December 2018

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Partner Description: IPANDETEC is a digital rights organization based in Panama City, Panama and they have been working in the Central American region since 2017. The organization promotes the use and regulation of ICTs and the defense of the human rights in the digital environment. Their work is focused on two main areas: promoting the cyber laws and policies based in an human rights perspective and participating in local and regional policy processes in Latin America. IPANDETEC have been working with local and regional partners in the multistakeholder discussion and development of the nationals cybersecurity strategies in Panama and Guatemala.

GFCE Member Since: 23 April 2018

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cybercrime

Partner Description: INsig2 is specialized in digital forensics solutions and services. We provide a wide range of services, from consulting and education to equipping laboratories, always keeping up with the latest technologies. Consulting services, in the field of digital forensics, offered by INsig2 are very efficient and personalized type of assistance to customers whenever and wherever they need it the most. We advise, support and conduct investigations for public sector (military, government, police, special task forces) and private sector (corporations and small businesses). Clients often use our consulting services in complex investigations when they deal with complex problems or when they need help with advanced forensic tools. However, consulting services do not stop here. They also include assistance in construction of laboratories, training and certification of experts and investigative procedures simulation. INsig2 also, provides consulting services and close cooperation to judges, prosecutors and lawyers in presenting digital evidence in a legal system. Since 2008, INsig2 has its own educational center with high quality capacity conduct a variety of high quality digital forensic trainings. Our education program includes principles and methodology of digital forensics, a legal perspective of working with digital evidences as well as the use of hardware and software forensic tools manufactured by the world’s leading vendors. As an Authorized Training Partner for a world’s leading forensic vendors, we are providing trainings with official vendor certifications. INsig2 offers a number of general training programs which are not related to specific products; basics of digital forensics, network forensics, Windows operating systems forensics, Linux and Mac forensics, forensics of mobile devices, python scripting, malware analysis and advanced digital forensics procedures. Also, INsig2 offers a wide range of management and skill-based courses tailored to meet the client’s needs. Course syllabus can also be tailored to meet client’s specifications and always include extensive hands on practical and professional certification, with CPE points. INsig2 will work closely with the client to adjust content and duration of the course according to their specific requirements.INsig2 has extensive experience in designing, equipping and setting up digital forensics laboratories for different government agencies and the police. In the line with the client’s budget and requirements, INsig2 will deliver and set up all the equipment and software, prepare the project and technical documentation and prepare instructions on equipment usage and maintenance.

GFCE Member Since: 24 September 2019

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybercrime

Partner Description: Global Partners Digital (GPD) is a social purpose company dedicated to fostering a digital environment underpinned by human rights and democratic values. Since 2014, GPD has been committed to promoting a vision of cyberspace that is secure, as well as free and open, by focusing on two key aims: fostering an enabling environment for human rights-respecting cyber laws and policies; and making policy processes themselves open, inclusive and transparent. To achieve this, GPD employs a range of connected approaches, working alongside partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America to build civil society capacity, engage directly with policymakers, shape policy debates, forge connections between stakeholder groups, and make cybersecurity-related issues more widely accessible. Over the years, as part of our Cyber Capacity Building (CCB) Programme and working with local partners, we have contributed to the development of national cybersecurity strategies in Ghana, Chile and Mexico, amending cybercrime legislation in Kenya, developing cybersecurity policy in Indonesia, and helping facilitate civil society engagement at the OAS, the ITU, the London Process, and the GFCE itself. GPD has been closely involved in the GFCE since its launch in 2015 – primarily through the GFCE Advisory Board, as well as through various GFCE initiatives and other activities that form part of our CCB Programme.

GFCE Member Since: 9 April 2018

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills

Partner Description: The Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC) at the University of Oxford is a leading international centre for research on efficient and effective cybersecurity capacity-building, promoting an increase in the scale, pace, quality and impact of cybersecurity capacity-building initiatives across the world. It has created a first-of-its-kind model to review cybersecurity capacity maturity across five areas (or ‘dimensions’), which aims to enable nations to self-assess, benchmark, better plan investments and national cybersecurity strategies, and set priorities for capacity development.

GFCE Member Since: 23 February 2016

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills