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UK develops global cyber security capacity, supported by the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance (ICSPA)

ICSPA leads early development of framework to boost defences against cybercrime and security attacks around the world.

The UK Government is creating a framework of global resources and expertise on cyber practice, which countries around the world will be able to draw on to tackle the range of cyber-threats and challenges. The framework will be developed by the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance (ICSPA), a business-backed, not-for-profit, global organisation that provides assistance to countries and their law enforcement agencies.

Commissioned by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Cabinet Office, the ICSPA will also deliver a second project that will help the UK Government to identify common priorities among law enforcement agencies and the private sector in supporting  countries that want to tackle online security and cybercrime.

Both projects are in support of the UK’s new Centre for Global Cyber Security Capacity Building, which will be launched in April 2013.

They will help to identify the international resources available to fight cybercrime, pinpoint less widely-known sources of expertise on the subject, and most importantly spot where the gaps are. The work is designed to benefit both companies and consumers in the UK. “Online attacks and cyber criminals don’t respect national borders. Helping countries with a strategy to fight cybercrime around the world will reduce the impact of attacks against UK-based companies and boost the huge benefits the Internet brings to our economies and societies,” said John Lyons, the Chief Executive of the ICSPA.

“The international fight against cybercrime can only succeed if we all work at it together.  Since our launch in July 2011, the ICSPA and its members and partners have been working hard to make this happen and now, with this UK Government initiative, we are beginning to see a more cohesive approach to an international problem.  More and more companies, governments and law enforcement agencies recognize that by collaborating on cyber issues we can begin to establish a more resilient and globally meaningful approach to protecting our online communities,” Mr Lyons said

For more information visit www.icspa.org

 

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