Assistance Without Borders: Capacity Building for Cross-Border Cyber Incident Response

Programme & Structure

The event is structured as follows:

1. 13:00 – 14:10 UTCOpen

   Technical Briefing: From Alert to Recovery

   Briefers will set out what it takes to seek, receive, coordinate and provide assistance during a cross-border incident, drawing on national, operational and regional perspectives. They will cover national readiness to receive and coordinate support, the technical capabilities needed to investigate, contain and recover from incidents affecting critical services.

2. 14:10 – 15:00 UTCBy application

   Policy Discussion: From Commitments to Operational Readiness

   Participants will discuss how existing commitments on cooperation and assistance can be translated into timely, effective and practical support. They will examine the institutional, legal, financial and partnership barriers to enabling such support, and consider what the Global Mechanism could do to address them.

3. 15:00 – 16:00 UTCBy application

   Facilitated Breakout Groups: Building Practical Options for States

   Following the policy discussion, participants will work in small groups to develop an indicative menu of capacity-building priorities for States to take forward through the Global Mechanism. One group will focus on capacities that must be developed nationally; the other will examine capacities that can be built or maintained collectively through regional and international networks.

Registrations for the policy discussions are reviewed to ensure relevant technical and policy expertise, gender balance, regional representation and diversity of stakeholder groups.