The successful Common Secure Conference of November 2020 resulted in a number of action points and areas of interest that led to follow-up sessions held virtually 2 and 3 February 2021, with wide participation from Common Secure Threat Intel Network service subscribers as well as some esteemed United Nations guests.

The first day began with a welcome by Tima Soni, Chief, Cyber Security Section, UNICC, a presentation session from UNDP and two roundtable discussions, including Jorge Flores Callejas, Inspector, UN Joint Inspection Unit  and UNODC as guests.

The second day began with UNICC presentations from Monica Price, UNICC Cyber Security Awareness Consultant and Tom Buelens, Information Security Specialist, ending in a round table discussion focused on “responsible vulnerability disclosure,” with very active participation of attendees from different Agencies (and Common Secure subscribers).

Common Secure subscribers attending included ADB, CTBTO, FAO, IDB, IAEA, ICJ-CIJ, IFAD, ILO, ITU, OECD, OHCHR, PAHO, UNCTAD, UNDP, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICC, UNICEF, UNIDO, UN OIM, UNRWA, WFP, WHO, WIPO and WTO, plus the UN Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and UNODC.

Agenda

Day one

• Virtual Common Secure 2020 Conference Follow-up – Presenter Tima Soni, Chief, Cyber Security Section, UNICC
• Practical Cyber Threat Intelligence: How to Apply the Diamond Model to Detect and Counteract Threat Actors in the Cloud – Presenter: Oleksiy Kuzmenko, Deputy CISO, UNDP
• Possibilities of State Parties’ Support in the Process of Reaction to Cross-border Cyber Incidents Affecting UN and Related Partners Organizations – Roundtable Discussion with Guest of Honor: Jorge Flores Callejas, Inspector, UN Joint Inspection Unit (JIU)
• Privacy as a Challenge in a Risk Assessments Process relying on OSINT, including SOCMINT, and CSINT – Roundtable Discussion.

Day two

• Security Awareness Services from UNICC – Presenter: Monica Price, Cyber Security Awareness Consultant, UNICC
• Comparative Analysis of Password Managers – Presenter: Tom Buelens, Information Security Specialist, UNICC
• Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure – Roundtable Discussion.

Further Common Secure Conference follow-up sessions. Thanks also to the over 100 participants from 30 Agency subscribers who attended more follow-up sessions on 26-27 April 2021, including guests from the European Investment Bank and European Bank for Research and Development.

Common Secure members found the follow-up conference valuable and a testament to a growing and solid network of collaborators to keep the entire UN family safe.