Working Group B: Cyber Incident Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

The second half of 2022 marked the change of WG-B Chair during the GFCE Annual Meeting 2022, as Abdul-Hakeem Ajijola’s stepped down as Chair after his second term. We are grateful for all the time, energy and ideas Abdul-Hakeem committed to this Working Group during his four years as a Chair. At the same time, the WG found in Klée Aiken its new Chair, with the handover being finalised during the GFCE Annual Meeting.

In 2022, the task Force on Cyber Incident Management (CIM) held an in-person meeting in the margins of the 34th Annual FIRST Conference in Ireland. The TF finalised a Cybil Portal Guide for the CIM community which provides an overview of all the useful resources that are available for the CIM community on the Cybil Portal as of October 2022. Members of the TF also overviewed the GFCE research report “Cyber Incident Management in Low-Income Countries” written by AfricaCERT and commissioned by Global Affairs Canada as one of the priorities identified by the GFCE Community in the Global CCB Research Agenda 2022-2023. Their efforts are also currently focused on two projects: one covering Proactive Communication during Cyber Incidents and a second one that covers National and Sectorial CSIRT Cooperation.

The Task Force on Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) has been working on a Guide for Cybersecurity Table-top Exercises (TTX) which is composed of three deliverables covering: an Introduction to TTXs, a TTX Scenario Runbook and a practical Use-Case.

More information on the group’s ambitions for 2022 is detailed in the Working Groups Workplan.