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BACKGROUND

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) aims to improve the cybersecurity readiness, protection, and incident response capabilities of Member States by conducting CyberDrills at the national, regional, and global level. Over the past ten years, ITU has held over thirty CyberDrills partnering with more than 100 countries committed to improving cybersecurity at both national and global levels. As part of ITU global CyberDrill 2021, this year, we intend to conduct 3 interregional meetings on the theme “Cyber Resilience and Protecting Critical information infrastructure”.

National CIRTs have faced a steady increase of responsibility over the past year, and it is critical that global cybersecurity personnel continue to collaborate and exchange best practices. On this regard, ITU is inviting member states, namely their CSIRT/CIRT/CERT and regional organizations in Africa and Europe regions to focused specifically on the role of national Computer Incident and Response Teams (CIRTs) and Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) in building cyber resilience and protecting critical information infrastructure.

OBJECTIVES

Setting up a cooperation dialogue by bringing together the regional cybersecurity community to review major regional cybersecurity trends and consider improvements based on the five pillars of ITU Global Cybersecurity Agenda (GCA) and The Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI).
Facilitate strategic cooperation and the exchange of information among Member States in order to minimize cyber threats impact, raises concerns and prevent future attacks.
Identify and address cybersecurity cooperation needs, current trends, good practices, innovative approaches, lessons learned, and to identify common challenges across regions.

DOCUMENTS

Output report

INTERREGIONAL MEETING

	Thursday 16 September 2021		10:00 - 12:30 Geneva time, CEST
	Speakers		Live Captioning Archive
	Registration: Interregional Meeting		Remote participation Registered user only

AGENDA & SPEAKERS

Opening Segment

ITU welcome remarks:

Mr. Andrew Rugege, Regional Director of the ITU Regional Office for Africa
Mr. Jaroslaw Ponder, Head of the ITU Office for Europe

Special messages from the regions:

Mr. Moses Bayingana, representative of AU Infrastructure and Energy, African Union Commission
Mr. Lacina Koné, Director General of the Smart Africa Secretariat
H.E. Ambassador Lotte Knudsen, the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations and other international organisations in Geneva

Panel I : Policy discussion on Cooperation between Europe and Africa

Moderator: Ms. Caroline Troein, Lead Cybersecurity Researcher, Cybersecurity Division, BDT, ITU

Mr. Moctar Yedaly, GFCE Africa Program Director
Mr. Luigi Rebuffi, Secretary General and founder of ECSO (European Cyber Security Organisation)
Mr. Didier Nkurikiyimfura, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Smart Africa
Mr. Jean-Robert HOUNTOMEY, Executive Director at AfricaCERT

Panel II : Critical Information Infrastructure protection , Identifying and Sharing Good Practices

Moderator: Ms. Anamaria Meshkurti, Program Officer ITU Office for Europe

Mr. Jeremy Ketteringham, representative of the UK Government (Presentation)
Ms. Natalia Spinu, Head Cyber Security Center CERT-GOV-MD (Presentation)
Mrs. Connie Francis, Director of ICT and Applications Services for the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) (Presentation)
Dr. Kaleem Ahmed Usmani, Head, Computer Emergency Response Team of Mauritius (CERT-MU)

Closing remarks