Benoit MOREL, Professor
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa 15213, US

Benoit Morel received a PhD in physics in Geneva (Switzerland). His
postdoctoral career took him to Harvard, Caltech and Stanford. He joined
the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University to teach international security
and eventually cybersecurity. His research covers several aspects of
cybersecurity, with emphasis on cybersecurity policy in general and in
particular in the context of developing countries.

Title: How developing nations are changing cybersecurity worldwide

 Abstract:  Cybersecurity is improving in Africa: Two countries: Tunisia
and South Africa, have national CERTs belonging to the Forum for
Information Security Teams (FIRST). Other African nations are in the
process of building similar capacity and doing a good job.
 It remains that cybersecurity is probably the most complex threat
against modern societies and there is no obvious path to meet that
challenge. Thanks to the pioneering efforts of a few, developing
countries are discovering a way to cybersecurity capability. Every
country is a special case. But there is at a fundamental level some
similarity of situations and developing countries are learning to help
each other in that effort in addition to receive some limited help from
more advanced countries.
 The goal of this talk is to draw early lessons from what happens in
selected countries in Africa and how they can be applied to facilitate
the access to cybersecurity capability in the other nations of Africa.
But also it is to emphasize that global cybersecurity will be modified
in important ways as a result of what happens in Africa.

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