Strengthening cybersecurity in the oil and gas industry
The Forum is improving cybersecurity in oil and gas bringing together more than 100 senior executives and practitioners from the industry.
The Centre for Cybersecurity is leading the global response to address systemic cybersecurity challenges and improve digital trust.
As technological advances and global interconnectivity accelerate exponentially in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, unprecedented systemic security risks and threats are undermining trust and growth.
The World Economic Forum's Centre for Cybersecurity is an independent and impartial global platform committed to fostering international dialogues and collaboration between the global cybersecurity community both in the public and private sectors. We bridge the gap between cybersecurity experts and decision makers at the highest levels to reinforce the importance of cybersecurity as a key strategic priority.
Our Community has identified the following three key priorities:
Building Cyber Resilience - enhance cyber resilience by developing and scaling forward-looking solutions and promoting effective practices across digital ecosystems.
Strengthening Global Cooperation - increase global cooperation between public and private stakeholders by fostering a collective response to cybercrime, and jointly addressing key security challenges.
Understanding Future Networks and Technology - identify future cybersecurity challenges and opportunities related to Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies and envision solutions which help build trust.
Founding Partners
Accenture, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Salesforce, Saudi Aramco
Governments, International Organizations, Academia and Civil Society
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Europol, FIDO Alliance, Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), International Telecommunications Union (ITU), INTERPOL, Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), Oman Information Technology Authority (ITA), Organization of American States (OAS), Republic of Korea National Information Resources Service (NIRS), Saudi Arabia National Cybersecurity Authority, Swiss Reporting and Analysis Centre for Information Assurance (MELANI), University of Oxford, UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Our Partners comprise the world's 1000 leading companies, developing solutions to the world's greatest challenges.
The Forum is improving cybersecurity in oil and gas bringing together more than 100 senior executives and practitioners from the industry.
This Forum brings together global cybersecurity leaders to collaborate on cybersecurity in the energy industry and improve the cyber resilience of the power grid.
Cybersecurity training: the Forum and its partners are reducing the global cybersecurity workforce gap through training and upskilling
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The Cybersecurity Learning Hub is an initiative designed to tackle the globally cybersecurity skills shortage, led by Salesforce with support from Fortinet, the Global Cyber Alliance and ...
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Cyber and technology risk must be governed in any modern organization. Leaders need a baseline understanding of the key issues in cybersecurity and require guidance in order to take actio...
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This report, written in collaboration with Sea, calls for a targeted and multistakeholder approach to tackling barriers to financial inclusion for the ASEAN region’s digital generation. T...
Digital trust is the expectation by individuals that digital technologies and services – and the organizations providing them – will protect all stakeholders’ interests and uphold societa...
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Cyber resilience must be integral not only to technical systems but is also essential in teams, the organizational culture and daily operations. This White Paper explains why many organiz...
The aim of this report is to provide an in-depth analysis of the challenges that security leaders are dealing with, the approaches they are taking to stay ahead of cybercriminals and the ...
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Unless action is taken now, by 2025 next generation technology, on which the world will increasingly rely, has the potential to overwhelm the defences of the global security community. En...
Cybersecurity is one of the most systemically important issues facing the world today. Cyber information sharing is critical to helping better collective security in the digital ecosystem...
This paper can help leaders to strategically manage information risks, work towards a culture of shared cyber-risk ownership across the organization and take a more strategic approach to ...
The world is experiencing an unprecedented crisis that is causing chaos in the global economy, disrupting supply chains, and transforming society. The new reality is accelerating business...
The World Economic Forum Platform for Shaping the Future of Cybersecurity and Digital Trust brought together a group of leading ISPs and multilateral organizations to develop new ways to ...
This white paper aims to raise awareness about the key systemic challenges to cyber resilience in the aviation industry in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and to highlight...
This paper sheds light on the importance of authentication in digital transformation efforts, introduces a framework for future authentication systems and presents five key passwordless t...
Cyberattacks are one of the top 10 global risks of highest concern in the next decade, with an estimated price tag of $90 trillion if cybersecurity efforts do not keep pace with technolog...
This report proposes an innovative focus on cybersecurity incentives for the investment community. Investors in innovation and technology-driven companies have a responsibility to ensure ...
Cyber resilience is a challenge for all organisations, but, due to its vital role as a societal backbone, it is of particular importance for the electricity ecosystem. The power grid is ...
Cyber Resilience: Playbook for Public-Private Collaboration helps leaders develop a baseline understanding of the key issues and policy positions relating to cybersecurity and resilience....
A first-of-its-kind resource to support board of directors and CEO to take action on cybersecurity and cyber resilience strategy.
It is imperative that the public and private sectors balance and prioritize the limited resources available to address cybersecurity challenges.
Home IT networks are becoming more difficult to protect as consumers use more connected devices, many of which are unable to run cybersecurity software.
To address the risk of cyber threats, we must first build a cyber-ready workforce. Here's what's needed now to train the next generation.