Network and security product provider Fortinet has announced the launch of the Cybercrime Atlas, a joint initiative between it, Microsoft, PayPal, and Banco Santander to aid industry, law enforcement, and government agencies by providing a first-of-its-kind visibility to help take down cybercriminals and their infrastructure around the world.
The Cybercrime Atlas was launched this month in Davos at the organisation’s Annual Meeting by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and is aimed to disrupt cybercrime at a global scale, by mapping and fighting the cybercrime landscape, and covering criminal operations, structures, and networks.
FortiGuard Labs chief security strategist and VP of global threat intelligence Derek Manky said, “disrupting global cybercriminal organisations requires a global effort with strong, trusted relationships and collaboration across public and private organisations and industries. It is part of Fortinet’s mission to secure people, devices, and data everywhere, and Fortinet is proud to be one of the founding members of the World Economic Forum Centre for Cybersecurity and an active contributor as part of its Partnership against Cybercrime (PAC). The Cybercrime Atlas initiative is about driving real impact and is a coordinated effort to create a chain of disruption in the world of cybercrime. We are excited to continue our work with private and public sector leaders to help make our digital world a safer place.”
Cybercrime impacts everyone, from individuals to multinational corporations, as well as governments and critical infrastructure. It causes immense damage, even if not always visible, to economies and societies. The Cybercrime Atlas was first conceptualised by the Forum’s PAC community, which has over 40 private and public sector members.
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The Cybercrime Atlas is a collaborative effort to build an action-orientated, global knowledge base of the cybercriminal landscape to enable mitigation and disruption of cybercrime. Building on the expertise of the Forum’s PAC, the Cybercrime Atlas initiative will provide a platform for leading cybercrime investigators, national and international law enforcement agencies, and global businesses to share knowledge, generate policy recommendations and identify opportunities for coordinated action to fight cyberthreats.
The Cybercrime Atlas aims to build a comprehensive picture of the cybercrime landscape that covers criminal operations, shared infrastructure, and networks. The links between the information gathered about threat actors will help the security industry more effectively disrupt the cybercriminal ecosystem, more efficiently allocate resources in the fight against them, and make their unlawful efforts more cost prohibitive.
The Cybercrime Atlas has benefited from a year of analysis into 13 criminal groups by specialised analysts and cybercrime investigators, using only publicly available information. The accumulated knowledge from the Cybercrime Atlas efforts will ultimately help to identify and disrupt the cybercrime ecosystem. The analysis will shed light on cybercriminal artifacts to aid industry, law enforcement, and government agencies to create a chain of disruption. The approach and initial findings of the group have been welcomed by law enforcement agencies. The uncovering of these non-traditional artifacts will help aid in the capture and successful prosecution of cybercrime gang members.
Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs’ leadership in the threat intelligence community over the last decade has helped take the fight to adversaries and improve protections for customers, partners, and governments around the world. By sharing threat intelligence and working with other threat intelligence organisations, it helps improve protections for customers and enhances the effectiveness of the entire cybersecurity industry.
FortiGuard Labs is committed to partnership and cooperation with global law enforcement, government organisations, and industry organisations. In addition to the work with WEF Centre for Cybersecurity and being a contributor to PAC, Fortinet also invests meaningful resources in further global partnerships, including the MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat Informed Defense (CTID). Fortinet is also a long-standing member of the NATO Industry Cyber Partnership (NICP), is an active contributor and member of INTERPOL Gateway, is a founding member of the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), and more.
International Criminal Police Organisation INTERPOL secretary-general Jürgen Stock, said, “this initiative underlines the need for an enhanced multi-sector approach to combat the increasing cybercrime threat. A global solution must include private sector insights to enable law enforcement to prevent, detect, investigate and disrupt cybercrime.”
Microsoft president and vice-chair Brad Smith said, “Cybercriminals work in the shadows to exploit vulnerabilities and inflict attacks. The Cybercrime Atlas provides an effective forum that brings the public and private sectors together to share and put data to use to disrupt cybercrime quickly, and at scale.”
World Economic Forum managing director Jeremy Jurgens said, “The Cybercrime Atlas is a collaborative research initiative that gathers and collates information about the cybercriminal ecosystem and major threat actors operating today. The insights generated will help promote opportunities for greater cooperation between the private sector and law enforcement to address cybercrime.”
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