About
The 2017 Best Practice Forum on Cybersecurity (BPF Cybersecurity) examined how a well-developed cybersecurity helps to create an enabling environment for ICTs and Internet technologies to contribute to development and to achieving the UN SDGs.
Cybersecurity assessment of the CENB(s) recommendations
The BPF performed a cybersecurity assessment of the CENB output documents and identified ten potential risks and security challenges emerging from the CENB policy recommendations.
Via a public call for input the BPF invited the community to come up with ways to face these challenges and mitigate the risks. This exercise resulted in a consolidated list of policy suggestions intended to inspire decision makers and other stakeholders around the world.
Areas to develop further stakeholder conversation
The BPF’s consultation on where a multistakeholder approach could help addressing security challenges resulted in a non-exhaustive list of 17 areas that would benefit from further stakeholder conversation.
Some issues are already being discussed, and duplication by creating new forums should be avoided. Hence, there are opportunities to establish dialogue and cooperation between existing initiatives, and interested stakeholders could consider joining existing forums.
Output document
IGF 2017 BPF Cybersecurity Final Output
Background
Part of the IGF’s thematic intersessional work program, BPFs offer the IGF community a space for stakeholder conversation on Internet governance related policy issues, and substantive ways to exchange best practices and produce concrete outcomes.
The BPF Cybersecurity was conceived in 2016 as a multi-year project building on the work of the 2014-2015 BPFs on SPAM mitigation and on CERTs. The proposal for the 2017 BPF Cybersecurity, approved during the MAG’s virtual meeting on 11 April 2017, built on approaches used by the 2016 BPF Cybersecurity and emphasized local and regional-level best practice exchange.
The 2017 BPF Cybersecurity worked in an open, bottom-up and collaborative way, leading into the BPF Cybersecurity workshop at the 12th IGF Meeting, and followed by the publication the BPF output document. Throughout the year the BPF convened in virtual meetings, held online discussions and invited community input via a public call for contributions. The BPF’s virtual meetings and mailing list were open to all stakeholders interested in or with expertise on cybersecurity.
Mailing List Sign-up
https://www.intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/bp_cybersec_2016_intgovforum.org
Documents
CENB Phase I - Security-focused Policy Analysis
CENB Phase II - Security-focused Policy Analysis
Meeting Summaries
Informal Virtual Meeting I - 17 January 2017
Informal Virtual Meeting II - 24 March 2017
Virtual Meeting I - 20 May 2017
Virtual Meeting II - 21 June 2017
Virtual Meeting III - 7 August 2017
Virtual Meeting IV - 18 September 2017
Virtual Meeting V - 11 October 2017
***Call for Contributions***
All stakeholders are invited to submit written contributions addressing the below questions and issues to the 2017 IGF BPF on Cybersecurity mailing list (subscribe: https://www.intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/bp_cybersec_2016_intgovforum.org). While it is envisioned that initial drafting of the output document will begin on 15 September, this should be considered a soft deadline as contributions will be welcome on a rolling basis, particularly from IGF National and Regional Initiatives (NRIs) and from other relevant entities or organisations who may be holding meetings relating to cybersecurity prior to the IGF annual meeting in December. Contributions received past 30 September may not be guaranteed for inclusion in the BPF's output document.
Contributions will then be compiled and synthesized by the Secretariat, and further circulated to the community for comment and further work towards an output document for the BPF to be presented at the 12th IGF in Geneva, Switzerland from 18-21 December.
All individuals and organizations are asked to kindly try to keep their contributions to no more than 2-3 pages, and are encouraged to include URLs/Links to relevant information/examples/best practices as applicable. When including specific examples or detailed proposals, those may be included as an Appendix to the document. Please attach contributions as Word Documents (or other applicable non-PDF text).
Overview:
During 2015 and 2016, the Policy Options for Connecting and Enabling the Next Billion(s) (CENB) activity within the Internet Governance Forum identified two major elements:
The Best Practice Forum on Cybersecurity realizes that making Internet access more universal, and thus it supporting the SDGs, has significant cybersecurity implications. Well-developed cybersecurity helps contribute to meeting the SDGs. Poor cybersecurity can reduce the effectiveness of these technologies, and thus limit our opportunities to helping achieve the SDGs.
BPF participants have conducted an initial study of how the policy proposals compiled as part of CENB Phase I and II may affect, or be affected by, cybersecurity implications.
As part of this ongoing effort, the IGF is now calling for public input to collect additional risks and cybersecurity policy recommendations that can help mitigate security impacts, and help ensure ICTs and the Internet continue to help contribute to achieving the SDGs.
Relevant reading:
-Summary Records of the BPF
https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/bpf-cybersecurity-1
-UN Sustainable Development Goals
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/-
-Policy Options for Connecting & Enabling the Next Billion(s) - Phase II
https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/3416/549
-Security focused reading of CENB Phase I -
https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4904/687
-Security focused analysis of CENB Phase II -
https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4904/688
Questions [*Please see HERE for NRIs-specific questionnaire]:
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