The Georgian Cyber Security Forum is an established security professional dialogue platform since 2012, held once or twice a year and organized by the Data Exchange Agency of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia. The Forum brings together both public and private agencies that are identified as critical infrastructure subjects, and offers discussion platform and working groups for solving various topics relevant to cybersecurity through cooperation.
The Cybercrime@EaP 2018 project, a joint project funded by the EU and implemented by the Council of Europe, was invited to contribute to the Georgian Cyber Security Forum, held at the Training Centre of Justice in Kvareli (Georgia) on 9 November 2018, by presenting its current efforts and future plans for capacity building on cybercrime.
Taking into account the audience of cyber security professionals (including law enforcement and defence authorities) present during the Forum, the presentation by the Council of Europe highlighted the necessity to establish links between cybercrime and cyber security communities, with the particular focus on public-private cooperation. The planned directions of the future capacity building efforts (policy, capacities, international and public-private cooperation), as agreed by the EaP countries during the Planning meeting on 12 October 2018 in Bucharest, were used to steer the discussions on potential cooperation and activities during the Forum.
