1.5 COOPERATION
1.5.1 INTRA-STATE COOPERATION
To facilitate sharing of cybersecurity assets across borders or with other nation states, Egypt has officially recognized
partnerships with the following organizations:
-ITU
-OMAN CERT
-TUNISIA CERT
-FIRST
-CyberSecurity Malaysia
-Indian CERT
-South Korea KISA
-Uganda CERT
In addition to the listed partnerships, EG CERT has partnership with US CERT and Tanzania CERT (TZ-CERT).
1.5.2 INTRA-AGENCY COOPERATION
EG-CERT organizes workshops and disseminates cybersecurity related reports within the ICT sector, governmental
sector, public sector, and with the banking and financial sectors.
1.5.3 PUBLIC SECTOR PARTNERSHIP
EG-CERT organizes workshops and disseminates cybersecurity related reports within the ICT sector, governmental
sector, public sector, and with the banking and financial sectors.
1.5.4 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Egypt is a member of the ITU-IMPACT initiative and has access to relevant cybersecurity services.
Egypt is a member of the United Nations Group of Government Experts (UN GGE) on the Developments in the Field
of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (Aug’12-Jun’13). The UN GGE is a
high level group of 15 international experts who prepared a report that addresses emerging cybersecurity threats,
forwarded to the UN General Assembly in Oct 2013.
The UNGGE report that Egyptian Expert participated in preparing (the only expert from Africa and Middle East) was
adopted by United Nations’ General Assembly in October/November 2013. A new UN GGE has been formed to
follow up on the work of the 2012/13 UN GGE, and Egypt continues to be a member of that Group in 2014/15.
Egypt has led the efforts to establish and currently chairs the ITU’s Council Working Group for Child Online
Protection (CWG-COP) since 2010.
Egypt is a member of MERIDIAN conference since 2009.
Egypt is an observer of the OECD’s Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP),
including the working party on Information Security and Privacy (WPISP).
EG-CERT is a full member of FIRST (2012), has participated in its annual conference since 2009, and has served on the
program committee of the annual FIRST Conference in 2012 and 2013.
EG-CERT is a member of the Organization of Islamic Countries-CERT (OIC-CERT), and has participated in OIC-CERT
annual general meeting since 2009.
NTRA (EG-CERT) hosted an ITU Arab Regional cybersecurity Forum attended by over 120 professionals from 8
countries, in Dec 2011, and an Egypt-US R&D cybersecurity Workshop attended by over 200 professionals, in May
2013.
Egypt participated in the 2012 ITU-IMPACT Workshop on cyber Drill in Jordan and in the ITU RCC Regional
cybersecurity Forum cyber Drill 2013 in Oman.
Egypt was the chair of the Program Committee of the Annual meeting of the national CERTs held in Boston – June
2014.
Egypt is also supporting Africa CERT and participated in its annual meeting in Djibouti – May 2014.
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