Partner Description: The S.M.E. Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute M.P., S.A. (INCIBE) is an organisation dependent on the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, the Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, and is the benchmark institution with regard to the development of cybersecurity, and of digital trust for the general public, for RedIRIS (the Spanish academic and research network), and for businesses, especially sectors of strategic importance. As a centre of excellence, INCIBE is a service offered by the Spanish Government to work towards the development of cybersecurity as an instrument for social transformation and for developing new fields of innovation. To this end, with its activities focused on research, the provision of services, and cooperation with the relevant actors, INCIBE heads a range of initiatives directed at cyber capacity building at both a national and an international level.

GFCE Member Since: 9 March 2021

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills

Partner Description: Insight Information Security is an Omani owned and managed company, specialized in providing IT security services with special focus on customer security, productivity, stability, and efficiency. Insight focuses on delivering services locally, in line with leading security guides on best practices, by highly competent resources and sound methodologies. Insight helps its customers by assisting them to introduce effective security controls to be proactive and prevent attacks.

GFCE Member Since: 25 June 2022

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills

Partner Description: AfricaCERT is the Forum of Computer Security Incident Response Teams and alike organisations covering the Africa continent. AfricaCERT fosters cooperation and coordination among Incident Response Teams, promotes information sharing. AfricaCERT provides the following services: * Capacity building to ensure incident response capability thought awareness creation, education and technical trainings. * Enabling a community of Security Professionals, Incident Responders, CSIRTs, in Africa that work together in a trusted forum but also. collaborate with others a global level. * Ensure access to knowledge, tools and standards. * Establishing and maintaining dialogue with other stakeholders in the ecosystem which work affect Incident Response Community especially policy makers.

GFCE Member Since: 9 February 2021

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Partner Description: The Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF) promotes good governance in the security sector through ensuring that security provision, management and oversight is effective and accountable within a framework of rule of law and respect for human rights. DCAF’s Cybersecurity Governance Programme works on identifying, understanding and responding to contemporary cybersecurity governance challenges. Working with government bodies, the private sector, the technical community and civil society, the Programme aims to contribute to more effective and accountable cybersecurity. Key objectives of the Programme are four-fold:

1. To provide practical guidance and support to assist stakeholders in ensuring more effective governance of the cybersecurity sector; In its projects, DCAF engages with relevant ministries and other stakeholders to give advice on reforming the countries’ cybersecurity governance structures. A particular focus is on enhancing good governance in the management of key cybersecurity actors, such as CERTs.
2. To support the development of national and international legal and policy frameworks to promote good cyber security governance; In international and regional forums DCAF advocates for an approach to cybersecurity based on the principles of good governance.
3. To facilitate dialogue and promote multi-stakeholder engagement across public and private sectors; DCAF organises activities on cybersecurity governance that involve all relevant cybersecurity stakeholders and assist the countries in developing functioning multi-stakeholder cooperation structures in cybersecurity.
4. To analyse threats, challenges and opportunities for effective governance in cyberspace through policy-relevant research. We develop new research on how principles of good governance can be applied in cybersecurity.

GFCE Member Since: 3 November 2020

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy

Cybersecurity Culture and Skills

TAG International was formed by the merger of Torchlight Group and Axiom International to become a Centre of Excellence for national and community security.

TAG International works with governments, international organisations, the private sector and communities to tackle complex development challenges in conflict affected, fragile and transitioning states.

Our work spans the full spectrum of security in the broadest sense: building national policy capability, designing resilience systems, countering global and local extremism, making markets work for vulnerable communities, and developing the governance partnerships essential to shared prosperity and sustainable peace.

We believe that local problems require local solutions. Our embedded field teams bring lifelong local knowledge to help governments respond to citizens’ most pressing needs, and empower grassroots communities to take control of their own development pathways.

Since 2010 we have strengthened security, reduced conflict, built social cohesion and tackled exclusion across four continents – innovating and learning in everything we do.

Today, we are proud to be trusted to deliver some of our clients’ toughest assignments in their most challenging settings.

Partner Description: Africa Cybersecurity & Digital Rights Organisation (ACDRO) is a Non-Governmental Organisation pioneering the rights to access, privacy, security, freedom of expression, and policy-oriented research within the digital environment in Africa and beyond.ACDRO is committed to promoting Cybersecurity Strategy & Policy Development, Cybersecurity Awareness Training, Cyber Capacity Building, CSIRT Establishment, Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, and Data Protection within Africa and other developing countries. ACDRO assists African governments in developing a comprehensive cybersecurity policy and strategy through a Multistakeholder/Multidisciplinary process.ACDRO has been at the forefront of many Digital Rights efforts, Internet Governance, Internet Freedom and Network Shutdown advocacy in Africa and other developing countries. ACDRO seeks to provide Rapid Incident Response Support to at-risk Human Rights Defenders, and CSOs facing security intrusions and breaches.

GFCE Member Since: 18 May 2020

Partner Description: At the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), we study and solve problems with widespread cybersecurity implications, research security vulnerabilities in software products, contribute to long-term changes in networked systems, and develop cutting-edge information and training to help improve cybersecurity.

GFCE Member Since: 2018

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Partner Description: eGA is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-partisan organization that creates and transfers knowledge and best practice in the area of digital transformation: e-governance, e-democracy and cyber security. Founded in 2002, eGA trains and advises leaders and stakeholders globally in using information and communication technology (ICT) to increase government efficiency and to improve democratic processes with the aim of building open information societies. eGA implements that mission through training, research, consultancy and change management support. eGA’s strong competencies are based on the international experience of its experts, having remarkable hands-on experience and a long track record in public sector ICT development.

GFCE Member Since: 19 October 2020

Participates in the following GFCE groups

Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy