Partner Description: The Cyber Intelligence and Security Aid Bureau (CISAB) is is a non-governmental organization that is first and foremost active in educating, informing and supporting the general public to acquire basic skills, knowledge and understanding required to reduce, prevent and avoid cybercrime. They seek to defeat crimes related to email, identity and internet fraud, phishing scams, cyber bullying, ransomware, cyber extortion, credit card fraud, online extremism, and more. To this end, CISAB actively engages in four programs: a mass cyber awareness campaign aimed at the citizenry called Vigilance First, a Cyber Aid program that provides total support for victims of crimes, a Cyber Diplomacy program that fosters dialogue and international collaboration among like-minded actors, and lastly, extensive research on cyber, human, national and global security for the purposes of positively affecting decision and policy making, public information, advocacy, and learning.

GFCE Member Since: 11-07-2023

Partner Description: The Institute for Security and Technology (IST) designs and advances solutions to the world’s toughest emerging security threats. IST is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to advancing solutions to critical cyber and other national security challenges. Some of their successes have taken the form of named initiatives, such as the Ransomware Task Force, now in its second year of impact. Others, like the Digital Cognition & Democracy Initiative, are focused on convening a diverse set of stakeholders and laying the groundwork for future solutions. In all cases, IST aims to foster connections and engagement between companies, organizations, and governments. IST has a focus on the below topics: Peace and Security, Combating cybercrime especially ransomware, Intersection of technology. You can visit their website at: https://securityandtechnology.org

GFCE Member Since: 25-08-2022

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cybercrime

Partner Description: RHUL Information Security Group is one of the largest academic information security teams in the world, and is a UK Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research. RHUL ISG is comprised of a wide range of academics with specialities ranging from computer science and mathematics through to social sciences. Research takes a multi-disciplinary approach, covering a broad spectrum of topics from highly technical areas such as post quantum cryptography through to social science areas such as cyber security culture, cyber diplomacy and norms, and cyber capacity building.

GFCE Member Since: 11-07-2023

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills

Partner Description: Quad9 is a recursive DNS resolver operating across the globe, with locations in almost 100 countries. Being a not for profit foundation, Quad9 offers its services for free to all users around the world. Quad9 is particularly recognized for its high level of security protecting its users with a real time block list of malicious domains acquired from 20+ threat intelligence providers. Additional to a high performance Quad9 guarantees 100% privacy for its users as it does not collect, store or sell personal data. Quad9 has many tens of millions of users across the globe, private, corporate as well as from the governmental and non-governmental world. In the developing world Quad9 contributes to bridging the digital divide, to defending human rights online, to protection of end users from cybercrime and other harms, and to implementation of Sustainable Development Goals.

GFCE Member Since: 25-8-2022

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Partner Description: CRDF Global is an independent nonprofit organization founded in Arlington, Virginia (USA), in 1995. The organization was formed in response to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the threat of large-scale proliferation of weapons technology from the region. CRDF Global is dedicated to promoting safety, security, and sustainability through science and innovation. Over the past 28-years, our focuses, capacities, and capabilities have grown to incorporate cybersecurity as part of our repertoire. We have since, implemented hundreds of cybersecurity capacity building events while engaging hundreds of institutional partners, and over 12,000 participants. Through our global hubs in Kyiv, Amman, and Manila CRDF Global builds and manages comprehensive and sustainable cybersecurity programs that strengthen critical infrastructure, improve private and public sector cyber workforces, and build resilient cybersecurity institutions.

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Partner Description: CyberSafe Foundation is a Non-Governmental Organization based in Lagos, Nigeria. Their mission is to facilitate pockets of changes that ensure a safer internet for everyone with digital access in Africa. Through their flagship initiative #NoGoFallMaga, they have in recent past launched cybersecurity awareness campaigns reaching over 20,000,000 people, organized cybersecurity awareness training for over 4000 SMEs, educating over 9000 employees of these organizations, launched Africa’s first storified cybersecurity awareness handbook and possibly Africa’s first afrobeat cybersecurity awareness song. These and more of their contributions to fighting cybercrime has earned them recognition around Africa.

GFCE Member Since: 13 May 2022

Partner Description: Cyberlite Books is a social impact agency based in Singapore. Our mission is to inspire change and enable a sustainable, equitable world through diverse communication. A key social issue we work on is cybersafety and digital wellness, in which we aim to make a positive impact through education and awareness training. We work collaboratively with government agencies and corporate partners to increase our footprint and empower the greater community with safe, informed cyber skills.

GFCE Member Since: 13 May 2022

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills

Partner Description: iCSS is a university-wide hub promoting interdisciplinary research and educational activities in a wide range of cyber security related topics. It represents the University of Kent as a UK government recognised Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). iCSS coordinates cyber security related activities in all areas including research, education, innovation, outreach, public engagement, and wider impact. Institute works closely with different academic schools to provide cyber capacity building activities including degree programmes and other educational and outreach activities.

GFCE Member Since: 30 March 2022

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills

Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Cybercrime

Emerging Technologies

Partner Description: EU CyberNet aims to strengthen the global delivery, coordination and coherence of the European Union’s external cyber capacity building projects. Also, it reinforces the European Union’s own capacity to provide technical assistance to third countries in the field of cybersecurity and cybercrime.

GFCE Member Since: 30 March 2022

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills

Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Emerging Technologies