Sunday, January 29, 2012
A new initiative has been launched at the World Economic Forum to strengthen cyber security & efforts to contend rising cyber risks. The initiative 'Partnering for Cyber Resilience' is a set of shared principles, promoted by chief executives of firms that recognise interdependence of organisations in tackling cyber risks.
Citing the importance of the initiative, India's largest software exporter TCS CEO and MD N Chandrasekaran underlined the need for consistent processes and uniform policy framework (in the digital world) that can be implemented internationally.
The new programme would engage the corporate firms into working towards a safer digital environment.
"We need to recognize that making the world more resilient to cyber-risks is a challenge that can only be addressed collectively by policy-makers, business and civil society," Alan Marcus, senior director and head of Information Technology and Telecommunications Industries at WEF USA, said.
"Everything attached to a network can be hacked and everything is being attached to a network," Rod A Beckstrom, president and chief executive officer of the Internet Corp of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), said.
US consultancy major Deloitte LLP was project advisor to the programme, developed through multi-stakeholder dialogue across the globe.
