3rd Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit 2012

Overview

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the 3rd Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit in New Delhi. The EastWest Institute is honored to host this first-of-its-kind meeting with leading thinkers, practitioners, and decision makers from India and around the world.

With its remarkable information technology industry and rapidly developing economy, India will play a key role in the world's efforts to secure our digital economy. Building on the policy progress represented by earlier summits in Dallas and London, the New Delhi Summit Process is breaking new ground in cybersecurity policy.

EWI's cybersecurity work is unique in that it not only encourages the exchange of ideas but facilitates the development and implementation of practical solutions to global challenges.

India's contribution, with the cooperation of government and private sector leaders such as Minister Kapil Sibal, NASSCOM's Som Mittal, and FICCI's Dr. Rajiv Kumar, allows the global community of specialists gathered here to ensure the wide applicability of their efforts. We hope it also helps build strong ties in the international cybersecurity community. After all, virtually everything in the digital era crosses international borders.

For all information, visit the summit website at http://cybersummit2012.com/

Background

2012 SUMMIT AIMS

> To mobilize new commitments by leading businesses and governments of Cyber40 countries to address cross-border cybersecurity challenges.

> To set in place new models for private sector leadership in addressing inherent vulnerabilities and emerging threats associated with global Internet connectivity and information and communications technology (ICT) development.

> To make advances on the most pressing issues in global management of critical ICT infrastructure with collaborative international breakthroughs.

> To frame an action plan for globally acceptable policies on cyber crime, the associated international investigative procedures and a framework for addressing the related very complex jurisdictional matters.

Program Overview

Like in London and Dallas, the format of the Summit will be highly interactive. This interactive working program gives participants unique opportunities to collaborate with professional peers from around the world. Participants can expect to be able to work on critical issues where international policy is stalled. These issues were identified at the first Summit in Dallas and the second Summit in London. The success of the Summit is measured by the breakthroughs made in these groups both during the meeting and in the followup activities.

The EastWest Institute, in partnership with the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), is sponsoring three new breakthrough groups. In consultation with the Indian government and private sector leaders, these new issues will be explored for detailed discussion at the Summit:

> ICT Development Supply Chain Integrity;

> ASPR for Globally Distributed Processing and Data Storage;

> Payload Security.

The objective for each of the breakthrough groups is to have actionable recommendations for industry and government that, if implemented, will have significant impact in making cyberspace and the real world more safe, more stable and more secure.

Agenda

After the previous editions in Dallas and London, the EastWest Institute is proudly bringing the Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit to India.

The Summit took place on October 30 and 31, 2012 at the Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi.

Click here to download the Agenda.

Click here to download "The Case for NATO-EU Cooperation in the Protection of Cyberspace."