Austrian OSCE Chairmanship Conference on Cyber Security

Building on the discussions at the Austrian OSCE Chairmanship Conference “Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructure: Strengthening Confidence Building in the OSCE”, this conference will facilitate face-to-face interaction between national CBM 8 Points of Contact (PoCs) as a means to promote trusted communication channels between participating States.

The PoCs will be invited to share best practices and co-operatively address some of the most pressing ICT-related security concerns with the purpose of promoting effective and timely joint responses, as well as voicing expectations towards other PoCs should such incidents occur. 

Themes to be addressed by PoCs include co-operative measures to 1) address terrorist and criminal use of ICTs in line with OSCE commitments; 2) protecting critical infrastructure from malicious ICT activities; and 3) protection of human rights on the Internet. Most fundamentally, a steadfast commitment to maintaining existing international law. 

The conference will start with a high-level opening session. Each of the subsequent three panel sessions will feature a set of framing questions followed by a tour-de-table where we kindly ask all Points of Contact to share their experiences and jointly address some of the challenges addressed in the set of questions which will be provided shortly before the conference. The final session will be dedicated to “The Way Forward”. These discussions are intended to provide further food-forthought for a possible OSCE Ministerial Council Document in Vienna.

Participants are kindly requested to fill in the attached registration form and send it to elke.lidarik@osce.org no later than 30 October 2017.