Cyber Resilience for NGOs
A Collective Intelligence Effort
Better understanding of Cyber Threat Landscape in The Netherlands
Cyber Resilience for NGOs is a new project designed to support and increase NGOs’ cyber resilience.
While NGOs are often vulnerable to cyberthreats, they are also overlooked in the EU and Dutch critical infrastructure funding priorities.
This project brings together four organisations, The Hague Humanity Hub, CyberPeace Institute (CPI), Connect2 Trust Foundation, and ShadowServer, each providing unique and complementary expertise, capacity and mission to achieve the following objectives:
- to map the cyber threat landscape;
- to clarify the human impact of cyber attacks, and how they affect not only the NGOs, but also the beneficiaries they serve
- to provide customised information about threats
Open Call for NGOs
Are you a non-profit organization looking to learn more about your organization’s cyber security and resilience, as well as gaps and potential weaknesses?
Are you looking to build the capacity of your team in ensuring your data and operations are securely monitored?
Would you like to build on your organization’s resilience towards cyber threats?
Would you like to contribute to a better understanding of the cyber resilience landscape in The Netherlands and support activities and lobbying towards more protection and cyber safety for this sector?
The project consortium is looking for non-governmental and nonprofit organizations to be onboarded to this project.
Eligibility Criteria for Interested NGOs:
- Your organisation must sign up for the CyberPeace Builders initiative
- Your organisation must do a General CyberSecurity Assessment (provided in the CyberPeace Builders Program)
- Your organisation must be able to share technical data to help our research
- Your organisation must commit to put up to 50 hours of work to the programme over 12 months
Project Activities
Project Outcomes
Identification of key cyber resilience methods for small and large NGOs
Contribute towards lobbying activities for cybersecurity in the NGO sector.
Measure and estimate the impact of cyberattacks on the NGO community
The project builds and expands upon the scope of CyberSecure The Hague project, in partnership with CyberPeace Institute, the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) and the Hague Humanity Hub, to ensure a better understanding and response mechanism, at a national level. Moreover, standing on the pillars of the CyberPeaceBuilders initiative from the CyberPeace Institute, the community built as part of this project will outlive it, and continue to engage, learn and protect against cyberthreats, after the duration of the project.
