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At the IGF in Katowice, the Dynamic Coalition on Internet Standards, Security and Safety announced its name change into Internet Standards, Security and Safety Coalition (IS3C). It remains an IGF Dynamic Coalition that brings together key stakeholders from the technical community, civil society, government policymakers, regulators, and corporate and individual adopters, with the shared goal of making online activity and interaction more secure and safer by achieving more widespread and rapid deployment of existing Internet standards and ICT best practices.
Internet and ICT security is an issue that is high on the agenda of governments, industry and individuals alike. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the rapid increase in society’s dependency on the Internet, communications technologies and networks, the interconnectivity of devices, and the vast array of online services, networks and applications that permeate all social and economic sectors, and on which every aspect of daily life, including our health and financial welfare, increasingly rely.
It is also widely recognised that many Internet-related products and services are increasingly vulnerable to security threats and the spread of online harms and criminal misuse. However, if relevant security-related standards and best practices are more effectively adopted and deployed worldwide, these risk can be reduced significantly. This will foster greater trust in the Internet and its related digital technologies and applications and the positive social and economic benefits of these transformative technologies for sustainable development will be fully realised for communities worldwide.
The IS3C aims to ensure that standards and best practices play their full role in addressing these cybersecurity challenges through establishing the conditions for their wider, more effective and more rapid adoption by key decision-takers throughout the standards implementation chain in both the public and private sectors.
This can be achieved only if there is a shared commitment by stakeholders worldwide in a new comprehensive and strategic approach.
The document outlines the sub-group’s aim of (a) reviewing current security-related IoT initiatives and practices worldwide, and (b) developing a coherent package of global recommendations and guidance for embedding security by design in the development of IoT devices and applications. The report will include the outcome of research questions shared globally.
The document describes the group’s focus on examining how tertiary educational curricula at all levels need to adapt to ensure that school and college-leavers are equipped with sufficient knowledge and understanding of how deploying security-related standards helps individuals and businesses be secure and safe in the digital economy. The group intends to develop recommendations and guidance in this regard.
The document outlines the group’s goal of developing actionable and practicable policy recommendations and guidance to ensure that public sector procurement and private sector supply chain best practice and related professional training takes into account Internet security and safety requirements.
The Communication WG has the Chair: Raymond Mamattah and Vice-chair: Olévié Kouami (Directeur général chez Le FA de la Téranga, Senegal) . Its purpose is to create and manage the various communication channels of the coalition such as creation of a website, email, social media handles etc.
IS3C provides decision-takers and procurement officers involved in ICTs procurement with a list containing the most urgent internet standards and related best practices. This assists them to take into account internet security and safety requirements and procure secure by design ICT products, services and devices, making their organisations as a whole more secure and safer.
WG chair: Wout de Natris
The Working Group’s chair is Louise Marie Hurel. The work is supported by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government
The goals of IS3C’s working group include:
Contributions from all stakeholders are welcome, including in-kind donations. The Coalition is grateful to IGF Trust Fund donors, listed below in order of the size of their total contribution since 2021.
