Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Coordinated Cybercrime Defense Needed - ITU


ITU head calls for coordinated cybercrime response

Published:26-May-2009 | By Kevin White | CBR

Exclusive interview with Secretary General of the UN’s ITU

New proposals published by the UN’s International Telecommunication Union could help harmonise global cybersecurity legislation, with the body’s chief Dr Hamadoun TourĂ© insisting it is vital that countries cooperate in a coordinated fight against cyber threats, cybercrime and other misuses of IT.

In an exclusive interview with CBR, Secretary General Touré said the level of international cooperation being demonstrated through the ITU showed how it is possible to formulate a response to cyber terrorism which is truly global.

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Highlights:

  • The threats are real. The sustained attack on Estonia in 2007
    highlighted the real dangers of cyber terrorism and demonstrated that
    the more wired a country is, the more vulnerable it becomes.
  • More
    recently, Canadian researchers at the Munk Center for International
    Studies at Toronto University reported the existence of a huge
    GhostNet’ phishing network that successfully infiltrated at least
    1,295 computers in government offices of 103 countries
  • The line
    from the ITU is that unless governments and business leaders recognize
    the dangers and begin to work together to combat cyber crime and cyber
    terrorists, then the consequences could be catastrophic
  • Large enterprises are to some degree better placed to protect themselves, but the ITU reckons 85% of businesses are vulnerable.


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