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

Partner Description: The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) is an international, cross-sector effort dedicated to eradicating cyber risk and improving our connected world. We achieve our mission by:

• Uniting Global Communities: We must stand as a global community, across sectors and geography, if we are to effectively address cyber risks.
• Implementing Concrete Solutions: We build concrete solutions that reduce and eradicate cyber risk, and we make those solutions freely available for any organization or individual to use.
• Measuring the Effect: We believe in measuring effectiveness. We must measure to know we are doing the right things, and metrics drive action. We need to know what works and what does not.GCA has united a global community of 265 partners from 32 countries and 18 sectors to work on practical, easy-to-deploy, free to use tools to drive the reduction of cyber risk and cyber crime.
• GCA built the Quad9 protective Domain Name System (DNS) service, in collaboration with IBM and Packet Clearing House, which blocks access to malicious sites, significantly limiting/reducing the impact of phishing and malicious software.
• GCA has driven global implementation of Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC), an email authentication protocol that prevents spoofing of domains in email, stopping the most virulent kind of phishing.
• GCA has built cybersecurity toolkits to help organizations and people achieve great “cyber hygiene” which can reduce cyber risk by as much as 85%.
• In 2019, GCA released toolkits for small businesses and election offices (https://gcatoolkit.org).
• As an organization we have had several successes to date working with public administrations around the world. For example, the New York City has worked with the GCA to deploy free cyber security across the existing NYC free wi-fi network and GCA worked with the US Department of Homeland Security to implement DMARC, an email-validation system designed to detect and prevent email spoofing, across all federal email domains to best protect email.

GFCE Member Since: 5 December 2019

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills

Partner Description: Get Safe Online is an authoritative and widely-respected resource designed to help individuals and small businesses stay safe, secure and confident when using the internet. The information and advice provided – on its UK website at www.getsafeonline.org, social media channels, media activities, outreach activities and via its partner channels – is designed to be impartial, practical and easy to follow by all of its target audiences. Get Safe Online also works closely with a number of police forces and MOD organisations, and has also, over the last three years, established a network of websites and local representations in 24 countries, funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Get Safe Online was established in 2006 and is a not-for-profit organisation.

GFCE Member Since: 5 February 2020

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills

Partner Description: Founded in 1990, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) consists of internet emergency response teams from more than 360 corporations, government bodies, universities and other institutions across over 78 countries. It promotes cooperation among computer security incident response teams through developing and sharing technical information and best practices, and organizing events to promote these efforts. FIRST promotes the creation and expansion of Incident Response teams across all industries and regions.

GFCE Member Since: 2 May 2017

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Partner Description: Funded by the European Commission and working in close cooperation with Europol-EC3 and CEPOL, both members of the advisory group, our activities aims to:

• Support international activities to harmonise cybercrime training across international borders.
• Share knowledge, expertise and find training solutions.
• Promote standardisation of methods and procedures for training programmes and cooperation with other international organisations.
• Collaborate with academic partners to establish recognised academic qualification in the field of cybercrime and work with universities that have already created such awards making them available across international borders.
• Collaborate with industry partners to establish frameworks whereby their existing and future efforts to support law enforcement by the delivery of training, harmonised into an effective programme that makes best use of available resources.
• Provide training and education material and reference trainers to international partners, supporting their efforts to train law enforcement on cybercrime issues globally.

GFCE Member Since: 15 August 2018

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybercrime

Partner Description: DiploFoundation is a non-profit foundation established by the governments of Malta and Switzerland. Diplo works to increase the role of small and developing states, and to improve global governance and international policy development. In this interdependent world, diplomacy is no longer just the ethically superior choice to military solutions, but a necessity for solving complex governance issues. For many, diplomacy is an elitist world of secrecy and black limousines. Traditionally, it has been the organised machinery for maintaining relations among societies. But we believe that it is more than this: diplomacy is a tool for solving conflicts in modern society through negotiation and compromise. Diplomacy is more important today than ever before. In our interconnected and interdependent world, we cannot solve problems just by using force (consider Iraq and Afghanistan). Diplomacy is therefore not just an ethically superior choice; it is practically the only one left to us. But diplomacy is undermined by a fundamental imbalance. Small and developing states are in a relatively weak position in the conduct of international policy processes; their limited resources mean that they do not have a large enough pool of professional, confident, competent international staff. As a result, small and developing states are not equally or effectively represented, so the total effect is diminished and lacks the creativity they would bring. Also, they may feel excluded and therefore reluctant to commit to processes that they perceive do not represent their interests and needs. Diplo is addressing this problem by helping small and developing states build the capacity to engage effectively in international policy processes, negotiations, and diplomacy.

GFCE Member Since: 29 May 2017

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills

Partner Description: We strive to enable a world where the skilled application of secure digital technology reduces social harm and increases economic prosperity. CYSIAM is appropriately headquartered in the premises of the historic Bletchley Park Mansion House in the UK. We are a highly deployable cyber capacity building team composed of ex-Government and military international development experts. Our values are at the heart of everything we do, and we work on 3 core principles:

• Secure by design – being a security business, this is where we start. Our passion is making things safe and secure and our mission is to give governments, organisations and individuals the means to operate with confidence in the digital age.
• Sustainable by default – we are qualified and experienced project managers and experts in developing cyber resilience initiatives that are measurable, iterative in their development, and tailored to unique organizational, cultural, environmental and geo-political sensitivities.
• Integrity – provide the same level of professional delivery regardless of the scale of the project, from critical national infrastructure monitoring to grass roots digital literacy, we are motivated by making a difference. Our team’s experience in cyber capacity building in the most complex and unstable parts of the world is second to none. Collectively; we have decades of experience in global change initiatives, cyber security consultancy and technical capability delivery.

GFCE Member Since: 5 December 2019

Partner Description: The CyberGreen Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in New York that conducts and supports research to establish a science of Cyber Public Health. CyberGreen is a trusted player following transparent methods of identifying sources of risk and best practices for the community. We are committed to evidence-driven metrics and measurements.

GFCE Member Since: 1 March 2016

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection