The International Telecommunications
Union/
Impact global
cybersecurity response
centre (GRC) signed up its 37th member in less than a year
this morning.
"Cybersecurity is now a priority on the institutional agenda,"
said Claudio Scajola, Italy's minister for economic development,
pledging his support for the initiative.
Impact (International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber
Threats) set up the GRC in
Cyberjaya, Malaysia,
earlier this year as the international community's foremost
cyberthreat resource to track and defend against cyberthreats.
Arbor Networks, F-Secure, Kaspersky Lab, Microsoft, SANS
Institute, Secunia, Symantec, Sophos, SRI-MTC and Trend Micro,
provide the GRC with live data to enable real-time analysis,
aggregation, and dissemination of global cyberthreat
information.
Impact's early warning system creates a virtual situation room
for governments that lets Impact members identify and head off
potential and imminent attacks before they can damage national
networks. The GRC also provides a way for countries to work
together to respond to cyberthreats.
Signing up on behalf of Italy, Poste Italiane CEO Massimo Sarmi
said his firm was setting up a national cybersecurity centre of
excellence (CSCOE), which will open later this year.
ITU secretary-general Hamadoun Touré said every country was now
"critically dependent" on technology. "Loss of vital networks would
quickly cripple any nation, and none is immune to cyberattack," he
said.