A global online resource to help coordinate international efforts in cyber security through sharing of information and best practice has been launched.
Helping to support decisions and investments that can significantly enhance safety and security in cyber space, the Cybersecurity Capacity Portal has been created by the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, part of Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford.
The concept is to give policy-makers, Governments, agencies, international and regional organisations, industry groups, academics, NGOs and others with a role in cyber security the ability to build capacity and information on a wide range of essential elements of cyber security.
The content is collated by a team of researchers at the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, who are focused on helping the international community increase the impact, scale and pace of cyber security capacity-building, it will bring publically available material together, including Government directives, case studies, articles, videos and industry insights to act as a central point of reference. Users can also join discussion groups or suggest new content to ensure that the portal contains the latest thinking on threat-related issues.
Speaking to IT Security Guru, Andrew Fitzmaurice, CEO of Templar Executives, said that this is a positive thing as the problem with academia is that it can be quite out of date. “I was recently at an event where an under-graduate challenged a dean at a university that what she was learning was a year or two years out of date,” he said. “He admitted that academia does have a problem remaining current and because of the way that the course is constructed and the amount of checking and cross-checking that the courses need to do to be delivered, within all of the areas in the world this is probably the one that moves the quickest in terms of new ideas.
“That is a problem academia is going to have, and something like the Cybersecurity Capacity Portal, where there is constant exchange of information, keeps them quite relevant and I know I can get answer from someone who knows their stuff. If information is five to ten years old, it is not to say that the concepts are wrong, but the latest examples of how the concepts are utilised are probably not there.”
Sadie Creese, Professor of Cybersecurity in the department of computer science at the University of Oxford, and director of the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, said: “This new portal will be a one-stop shop for essential information on what is already being done around the world and what we can learn from those experiences to enable us to better increase the scale, pace and quality of cyber security.“
