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: Cyber Academy is one of the first institutions in the SEE region that provides a hands-on program that dives deep into different subjects of technology while presenting a new learning theory, “Learn by Doing,” where the students are more focused on practical knowledge and skill development. Our primary focus is on Cybersecurity, Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence. Before even finishing the program, some of our students get employed. They work the full spectrum of technology all around the world, developing, designing, and maintaining systems from small businesses to state critical infrastructures. The Cyber Academy recognizes its role within the broader cybersecurity community. It is determined to maintain a STEM focus throughout the curriculum and across extended learning opportunities. We develop top-quality education curriculums that can be customized as a self-paced, virtual-led classroom or blended learning solutions that combine some or all modalities with meeting your specific business needs and course goals. Cyber Academy has been a pioneer in providing quality academic content and curriculum development with scalable solutions that can quickly adapt and suit requirements to clients worldwide. Below you can find the link of our cyber security program. https://cyberacademy.co/cybersecurity-program/

GFCE Member Since: 25-10-2022

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Emerging Technologies

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Partner Description: DGAP (German Council on Foreign Relations) conducts action-oriented, practical research. Its experts develop concrete solutions for pressing foreign policy concerns and contribute expertise to strategically address the challenges of an increasingly unstable world. DGAP’s Research Institute sees itself as a consultant, mediator, and driver of operative foreign policy. Among others one of DGAP’s core theme is Technology and Digitization. Our website: https://dgap.org/en/research/expertise/technology-digitization

GFCE Member Since: 25-10-2022

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Partner Description: The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is a world-leading independent think tank based in London. Since its foundation in 1831 RUSI has engaged in forward thinking, free discussion and careful reflection on defence, security and international affairs. Our mission and values are underpinned by the ambition to build a more secure, equitable and stable world. RUSI’s has a dedicated cyber research group that examines UK and international strategic responses to cyber. The team calls upon broader experience of RUSI staff and Associate Fellows and has fostered a growing network of cyber experts from both the public and private sectors and academia. Through RUSI’s research and its wider activities we will help the GFCE to advance a core objective of furthering international cooperation. RUSI can provide capacity building initiatives with an independent, research-led lens.

GFCE Member Since: 25-08-2022

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cybercrime

Partner Description: The European Institute for Political Studies in Moldova (EIPSM) was launched by the Council of Europe in December 2003. The EISPM mainly focuses on the organization of interactive seminars and conferences in Moldova, organized in cycles. The Institute’s organisational structure is derived from the institution’s main goals and plans of activity, namely its contribution to the establishment of a new political culture and the activities it undertakes to achieve it. The EIPSPM aims to encourage the training of a new generation of political and opinion leaders, as well as civil society activists capable of promoting democratic ideas and reforms, thus bringing the Moldovan society closer to its goal of attaining European democratic values and principles. Overview of the CCB project: -Cyber confident building -Cyber protection Conferences: -Women in cyber: Awareness Raising -Awareness Campaign on Cybersecurity

GFCE Member Since: 25-08-2022

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills

Partner Description: The Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center (ICRC) at Tel Aviv University fosters interdisciplinary scientific research on the information age, digital transformation and cybersecurity. Led by Prof. Maj.-Gen. Isaac Ben-Israel, Blavatnik ICRC operates a research fund, competitively awarding fundamental and applied research grants, carrying out outreach activities and for many years has been organizing Tel Aviv’s annual Cyber Week, one of the top international cybersecurity conferences in the world. One of the flagship research projects of recent years has been work on the PROGRESS Methodology, led by Dr Lior Tabansky. The aim is to offer an effective way to assess and also improve an entire sector’s cyber capability maturity. In 2021 the work entered the pilot stage with projects being implemented in a number of sectors. Additionally, the World Bank, launched a joint program with the ICRC to help protect critical infrastructure in developing countries through utilizing and developing the PROGRESS Methodology in the form of creating a Critical Information Infrastructure Toolkit that can be rolled out.

GFCE Member Since: 18-10-2022

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Partner Description: We are an independent, non-partisan technology policy think tank based in Berlin. We seek to provide a focal point for people whose work covers current political and social questions of the cross-sectional issue of digitalization. We compile and publish analyses, develop recommendations for action for policymakers, conduct expert workshops, invite experts to engage in publicly accessible policy debates, and provide detailed and accessible information on the context and background of such debates in the media. Our International Cybersecurity Policy team has been working on cyber capacity building since 2018, particularly by designing and implementing cybersecurity policy exercises tailored to the context of individual countries. These exercises are a starting point to identify cyber capacity building needs. To date, we have conducted such exercises in eight countries in different regions, including the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Costa Rica, the Republic of Kenya, the United Mexican States, and the Republic of South Africa. This year, we have started a cyber diplomacy project in which we address both the implementation of cyber norms and cyber capacity building.

GFCE Member Since: 21-11-2022

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills

Partner Description: Established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) in 1958 as one of the UN’s five regional commissions, ECA’s mandate is to promote the economic and social development of its member States, foster intra-regional integration, and promote international cooperation for Africa’s development. Made up of 54 member States, and playing a dual role as a regional arm of the UN and as a key component of the African institutional landscape, ECA is well positioned to make unique contributions to address the Continent’s development challenges.

GFCE Member Since: 15-05-2022