Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), at the kind invitation of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA), Republic of Turkey, co-organized together with the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications of Turkey, in collaboration with the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT), the International Cyber Shield Exercise 2014 (ICSE 2014), which took place from 15 to 16 May 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey.
This Exercise aimed to contribute to ongoing global activities related to building confidence and security in the use of ICTs (WSIS Action Line C5) and was linked to the ITU Global Cybersecurity Agenda (GCA) and Hyderabad Action Plan Programme 2 (Cybersecurity, ICT Applications and IP-based network-related issues).
Furthermore, this event aimed to provide a platform for information sharing on key aspects pertaining to Cybersecurity and with particular focus on the effective handling of incidents by CSIRT/CIRT/CERT. It expected to bring together CIRT practitioners, senior government officials, Cybersecurity experts, related industry players and other stakeholder groups from ICT and security sectors with the end in view of strengthening your national CIRT.
Host country also produced the website for this event and we invite you to visit it at www.icse2014.org
Disclaimer: All activities under ITU’s partnership with IMPACT ended in 2016 after the completion of the remaining pending projects. IMPACT communicated its formal dissolution at the beginning of 2018. Such dissolution implied the termination, with immediate effect, of the MoU and the Cooperation Agreement signed between ITU and IMPACT.
