The Society for the Policing of Cyberspace
http://www.polcyb.org
Third Meeting for WSIS Action Line C5:
Building Confidence and Security in the Use of
ICTs
22-23 May 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
Who Are We?
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Incorporated as a not-for profit society in June
1999, British Columbia, Canada.
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An International Society which promotes
Information Security among Professionals and
the General Public.
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An International Network of Professional
Partners in Public and Private Sectors.
Our Goals
To enhance and develop global
partnerships to prevent, detect, and
combat cyberspace crimes.
To continually establish a permanent
Network for international criminal
justice and corporate sectors to share
knowledge, information, and resources.
To facilitate educational forums to enhance
understanding of the work undertaken by
international criminal justice and corporate
agencies in preventing and combating
Cyberspace crimes.
To provide public education on information
security.
POLCYB Executive Board 2008/2009
President
Stuart Hyde, Assistant Chief Constable,
West Midlands Police,
Police Headquarters, UNITED
KINGDOM
Vice-President/ Corporate
Vice-President/ Law Enforcement
Dan Swartwood,
Director of Information
Safeguarding, Walt Disney
Company, USA
John Revitt, Sergeant
Vancouver Police Department,
CANADA
Secretary
Treasurer
Bennie Yung, President,
Tung Fung Enterprises,
CANADA
Scott Warren,
Managing Director,
Kroll International, USA
Our Issues
Our Partners in the Public and
Private Sectors Explore…
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Global Emerging Trends in Cybercrime
Best Practices for sharing Financial and Human
Resources
Legal Issues
Cyber-ethics
Law Enforcement Jurisdictional Challenges
Challenges for Judiciary
Training & Recruitment Needs
Proactive Policies
POLCYB 2008 Initiatives
Annual POLCYB International Summit
Quarterly Meetings
Speakers’ Bureau
Public Education
POLCYB International Law Enforcement
Cybercrime Award (I.L.E.C.A.) 2008
Development of “POLCYB Trusted Community
Portal”
Development of “Certification for International
Cybercrime Professionals”
(C.I.C.P.)
Policing Cyberspace
International Conference 2008
Vancouver, B.C., CANADA
September 29-30, 2008
Conference Theme:
“International Research and
Collaboration in Cybersecurity.”
The Policing Cyberspace
International Summit 2008
Bangkok, Thailand
November 17-21, 2008
In Collaboration with Council of Europe
Summit Theme:
“Towards the Future of Global
Security: Raising the Bar on
Collaboration.”
POLCYB International Summit
5 - Day summit 2009
Budapest, Hungary
June/July, 2009
In Collaboration with Council of Europe
Quarterly Meetings
Information-sharing / Networking
Identify Global Emerging Trends
Identify Issues / Topics for
Annual POLCYB International Summit
POLCYB International Cybercrime
Award (I.L.E.C.A.) 2008
Motorola and Sun Microsystems
Innovation
Best Practices
CURRENT POLCYB
INITIATIVES
POLCYB
Trusted Community Portal
Certification for
International Cybercrime Professionals
(CICP)
POLCYB
Trusted Community Portal
Repository of Cybercrime-related
Information
Maintained and Updated by the
POLCYB Community.
Discussion Forum
POLCYB
Trusted Community Portal
POLCYB Who’s Who?
POLCYB What’s What?
POLCYB e-Headlines
POLCYB e-Journal
POLCYB Members’ Wish List
POLCYB Who’s Who?
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Contact information for members seeking
someone in another region, or with special
expertise.
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Prevalent trends, investigative
techniques, new technologies, and
anything else of common interest to
members.
POLCYB What’s What?
Case laws
Existing and upcoming programmes /
initiatives offered by government, industries,
and non-governmental agencies
Research initiatives
POLCYB e-Headlines
“POLCYB e-Headlines” will contain only
several lines of updated cybercrime news, such
as new initiatives, international cases, events,
policies, cybercrime law (recent revisions or
new law in various countries). Further details
on the respective items will be provided by
links.
POLCYB e-Journal
Summaries and links to current and
upcoming international cybercrime
research, such as cybercrime trends,
policies, law, programmes/initiatives.
POLCYB Members’ Wish List
Promote resource-sharing of existing
tools, as well as facilitate discussions for
R& D of forensic tools.
Certification for
International Cybercrime
Professionals
(CICP)
Skill sets which could be applied
to Management Levels in the field
of Information Security.
E.g. Regional and International
Cybercrime Laws, Development
and Management of a Cybercrime
Unit, Overview of Forensic Tools.
The Society for the Policing of Cyberspace
Website: http://www.polcyb.org
Email: polcyb@polcyb.org
Tel: (+1) 778-782-7815