Centre for Cybersecurity The centre seeks to support individuals and organizations to securely benefit from ongoing digital and technological progress. To achieve this, it provides an independent and impartial platform to reinforce the importance of cybersecurity as a strategic imperative and drive global public-private action to address systemic cybersecurity challenges. Its three priority areas of work are building cyber resilience, strengthening global cooperation and navigating cyber frontiers. It seeks to achieve these by promoting best practices and developing solutions to enhance cyber resilience throughout industry ecosystems (building cyber resilience); facilitating public-private partnerships to address challenges collaboratively (strengthening global cooperation); and identifying and explaining the cybersecurity risks and opportunities of emerging technologies and an increasingly interconnected world (navigating cyber frontiers). Among the centre’s highlights from the reporting period was its Annual Meeting on Cybersecurity, which convened over 150 experts to collaborate towards advancing equity in cyberspace. The meeting was also instrumental in strengthening support for the centre’s ongoing initiatives. Its Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025 examined the cybersecurity trends expected to affect economies and societies in the coming year. It underscored the growing complexity in cyberspace, which is characterized by geopolitics, emerging technologies, supply chain interdependencies and cybercrime sophistication. During the reporting period, the centre brought together more than 50 public and private organizations to share knowledge and identify systemic solutions to counter cybercrime at scale, as part of its Partnership against Cybercrime initiative. In the same vein, its Cybercrime Atlas initiative developed a framework for operational collaboration and best practices to support the success of anti-cybercrime partnerships. As part of this work on implementing the Disrupting Cybercrime Networks: A Collaboration Framework in different regions, training exercises were co-hosted with INTERPOL in Bangkok, Thailand and Panama City, Panama.Alongside this, the centre focused on strengthening cyber resilience in industries undergoing a fundamental transformation, considerably heightening cyber risks. This involved working with more than 200 cybersecurity leaders to develop and scale up solutions and promote effective cybersecurity practices across industry ecosystems. In January, the centre launched a Centre for Cyber Economics (CCE) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in collaboration with the Global Cybersecurity Forum, as part of the Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network. CCE will develop robust, evidence-based frameworks to enhance global cybersecurity resilience and economic stability. Cybersecurity skills shortages are a major and ongoing problem. As part of the centre’s work to address the demand for a skilled cybersecurity workforce, it unveiled Growing Cyber Talent Through Public-Private Partnerships at the Global Conference on Cyber Capacity Building (GC3B) in Geneva, Switzerland, in May 2025. The centre hosted a high-level ministerial meeting of the GC3B organized by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). Under the leadership of the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD), this meeting brought together 54 ministers and senior executives to discuss the African Declaration on Cybersecurity Capacity Building. To support this effort, the centre, in collaboration with the Western Balkans Cyber Capacity Center, held a capacity-building workshop dedicated to strengthening global operational collaboration to disrupt cybercrime and enhancing cybersecurity workforce development. Maraš Dukaj, Minister of Public Administration of Montenegro, opened the event, which brought together over 80 participants from across the Western Balkans. Finally, the centre collaborated with the University of Oxford’s Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre to develop knowledge that supports organizations in managing the cybersecurity risks associated with the adoption of AI technologies. This collaboration culminated in the publication of the report, Artificial Intelligence: Balancing Risks and Rewards. Cybersecurity is entering an era of unprecedented complexity, making strong leadership essential as organizations navigate a world of cyber risks and challenges. Akshay Joshi, Head, Centre for Cybersecurity Annual Report 2024-2025 Our Organization27

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