"Part of our job, as cybersecurity professionals, is to investigate confirmed and suspected compromises," he says.
"The potential societal harm of cyberattacks against organisations providing critical services around the world puts peoples lives at risk," says F-Secure VP and head of the company's Tactical Defense Unit, Paolo Palumbo. "The F-Secure's decades of experience in security is a tremendous asset that we can leverage to help humanitarian organisations targeted by cyberattacks."Ĭapabilities that F-Secure can leverage to support the CyberPeace Institutes include intelligence gathering, reverse engineering malware, forensic analysis of cyber incidents and cyber risk assessment of CyperPeace Institute's beneficiaries digital assets. "That's a significant problem, and we need the expertise of our industry partners to help in this understanding," Duguin says. "One of the biggest challenges we have is the lack of accountability in cyberspace, which poses a great risk to not only stability in our digital world but the goal of cyber peace itself," says CyberPeace Institute CEO, Stéphane Duguin. It accounted for nearly ten percent of Microsoft's Detection and Response team's ransomware engagements from July 2020 to June 2021. According to a recent report, healthcare was one of the five sectors most frequently victimised by human-operated ransomware. The attacks are low-risk, high-reward crimes that have become a significant problem. The letter outlines a broad plan for cooperation in a number of areas, including the forensic analysis of cyber incidents that increasingly affect vulnerable communities.Īccording to the partnership, particularly telling examples of attacks that harm vulnerable communities are those targeting healthcare providers. The CyberPeace Institute is an independent non-governmental organisation whose mission is to protect people's security, dignity, and equity in cyberspace. Global cybersecurity provider F-Secure has signed a letter of intent with the Switzerland-based CyberPeace Institute to counter attacks against vulnerable communities.