European Electronic Crime Task Force

European
Electronic Crime Task Force
Founded June 30, 2009 (2009-06-30)
Founder
Type Information Sharing Working Group
Focus Electronic Crimes in Europe
Location
Members
  • 3 Founder Members
  • 19 Permanent Members
  • Community of Experts (more than 400 professionals)
Key people
 Vanes Montanari, VP Security and Safety Poste Italiane - EECTF Chairman

The European Electronic Crime Task Force (EECTF) is an information sharing initiative,[1][2][3][4] started in 2009 by an agreement[5][6][7] between United States Secret Service, Italian Ministry of Internal Affairs and Poste Italiane, whose mission is to support the analysis and the development of best practices against cybercrime in European countries, through the creation of a strategic alliance between public and private sectors, including Law Enforcement,[4] financial sector,[8][9] academia,[1][10][11] international institutions[12][13][14] and ICT security vendors.[15]

Accordingly, EECTF aims to help the cyber security community by:

  • Strengthening relationships between the different players;
  • Training and supporting members through sharing[12][16][17][18] expertise and knowledge;
  • Enabling an effective communication channel for information exchange;
  • Maintaining co-operation[19] on a technical and operational level.

History

The EECTF has been established on June 30, 2009 by an agreement between United States Secret Service, Italian Ministry of Internal Affairs and Poste Italiane, on the basis of the successful experiences of analogous ECTFs founded in USA by the Secret Service.
United States Secret Service participates through the Rome Office, the Italian Ministry of Interior participates through the Service of Postal and Telecommunications Police and Poste Italiane participates through the Information Security Department.
Initially restricted to the only Founder Members, the EECTF has been opened thereafter to the main stakeholders in cybercrime, who expressed the will to contribute to a proactive sharing of relevant information and a Permanent Members Group has been started, who gather to analyze emerging trends[20][21][22][23] in cyber-crime and discuss methodologies and techniques to combat them.

Governance

EECTF is not a legal entity, it’s a working group, created on a voluntary basis, which has been governed since its creation by the EECTF Board, made up of the three Founder Members: United States Secret Service, represented by the Special Agent in Charge of the Rome Office, Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni, represented by the Head of Service and Poste Italiane, represented by the CEO.
Poste Italiane has been chairing the EECTF Board since its birth. Chairman of the EECTF is Mr. Vanes Montanari, VP Security and Safety at Poste Italiane.
Administrative and operational activities are accomplished by the EECTF Technical Secretariat, held by Poste Italiane.

Modus Operandi

The EECTF is run via monthly meetings of a selected group of Permanent Members, quarterly open events extended to a wide Community of selected experts and continuous sharing of information relevant to the cybercrime scenario, also through dedicated specific tools.
Permanent Members are internationally acknowledged organizations, both private and public, with a broad view on prevention, analysis and contrast of electronic crimes at European level, whose competencies might represent instances coming from whole domains of interest.
Permanent Members formally commit to proactively share information with other Members of the Group in a non-competitive environment, according to a non-disclosure agreement, and to actively contribute to the EECTF life, taking part to meetings and supporting the EECTF development.
Additionally, in order to make the most out of the competencies of the whole community of the EECTF, an Expert Group has been started, which gather on a periodic basis and is restricted to only Permanent Members, focusing on technical information sharing about new threats and possible countermeasures.

Constituency

Constituency of the EECTF is made up of the following organizations

MEMBERSECTORCOUNTRYSTATUSSINCE
ABI Lab[9][24]Research and InnovationItalyPermanent Member2013
American Express[8]Payment Systems and Financial ServicesItalyPermanent Member2010
Bulgarian PoliceLaw Enforcement AgenciesBulgariaPermanent Member2011
CA TechnologiesICT Private SectorItalyPermanent Member2012
ConsipPublic AdministrationItalyPermanent Member2013
CitibankPayment Systems and Financial ServicesUnited StatesPermanent Member2011
Global Cyber Security Center[25]Research and InnovationItalyPermanent Member2010
Italian Ministry of Economy and FinancePublic AdministrationItalyPermanent Member2011
Kaspersky GreatICT Private SectorRomania / ItalyPermanent Member2011
MasterCardPayment Systems and Financial ServicesItalyPermanent Member2012
NTT DataICT Private SectorItalyPermanent Member2013
Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni - Polizia di StatoLaw Enforcement AgenciesItalyFounder Member2009
Poste ItalianePayment Systems and Financial ServicesItalyFounder Member and Chairman2009
Romanian PoliceLaw Enforcement AgenciesRomaniaPermanent Member2011
RSA - EMC2[15]ICT Private SectorUnited States / ItalyPermanent Member2010
Selex ESICT Private SectorItalyPermanent Member2013
SymantecICT Private SectorItalyPermanent Member2011
UniCreditPayment Systems and Financial ServicesItalyPermanent Member2012
UNICRI - United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research InstituteResearch and InnovationGlobalPermanent Member2011
United States Secret ServiceLaw Enforcement AgenciesUnited StatesFounder Member2009
VerizonICT Private SectorUnited StatesPermanent member2010
Visa EuropePayment Systems and Financial ServicesUKPermanent Member2011

EECTF Community and Plenary Meetings

With the aim of aggregating all the potentially valuable stakeholders, an invitation-only Community of Experts has been set up as a public interface of the Permanent Members Group, made up of acknowledged professionals and organizations who distinguished as active contributors in the field of prevention and contrast of electronic crime.
The EECTF gather in periodic Plenary Meetings, organized to focus on general trends in cybercrime and security issues of current interest. More than 10 Plenary Meetings have been organized so far, as listed below.

Plenary Meetings

IJune 30, 2009The European Electronic Crime Task Force
II[26]March 16, 2010Successful Cybercrime Investigations
IIIJune 24, 2010International Funds Transfer and cooperation with LEAs
IV[27]February 10, 2011Trends in Cybercrime and Cyberthreats: Europe and the United States
V[28]May 18, 2011Identity theft: Malware, Botnet & Social Networking
VINovember 15, 2011Cybercrime Underground Economy
VIIMarch 6, 2012Advanced Persistent Threats: Attacks to Corporate Information Systems
VIIIJuly 18, 2012Secure Identities in Cyberspace
IX[11]November 29, 2012Security of Innovative Payment Systems
X[29][30]April 23, 2013CERTs and International Cooperation Networks
XINovember 5, 2013Security of Internet Payments and Online Services
XIIMarch 31, 2015New Trends in Cyber Crime

Past speakers include:

Additionally, a monthly newsletter, CyberNews, is published within the Community, to point out the most relevant events and trends in the cybercrime scenario.

See also

References

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  3. ↑ European Commission. "Actions under the responsibility of Member States: Action 38 in Italy" (website). Implementation of the Digital Agenda for Europe.
  4. 1 2 "US Secret Service Establishes Second European Electronic Crimes Task Force" (Press Release). HostExploit. June 2010.
  5. ↑ "United States Secret Service signs partnership agreement with Italian officials establishing the first European Electronic Crimes Task Force" (PDF). USSS website (Press Release). July 2009.
  6. ↑ Istituto Affari Internazionali - Osservatorio di Politica Internazionale (May 2011). "Cyber Security: Europa e Italia" (PDF). Italian Parliament's website (in Italian). p. 22.
  7. ↑ The European Union Pilot Project on Transatlantic Methods for handling global challenges in the European Union and United States (June 2011). "EU-U.S. Security Strategies: comparative scenarios and recommendations" (PDF). Website of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. p. 65.
  8. 1 2 RAND Corporation (March 2012). "Feasibility Study for a European Cybercrime Center" (PDF). European Commission's website. p. 62.
  9. 1 2 "Banking Research & Innovation Centre" (PDF). ABI Lab's website (brochure) (in Italian and English). 2014. p. 2.
  10. ↑ Maioli Cesare (2010). "Project Card: Cooperation with EECTF". University of Bologna - CIRSFID website (in Italian).
  11. 1 2 Royal Holloway University of London (December 2012). "Dr. Gerhard Hancke speaks at European Electronic Crime Task Force event".
  12. 1 2 "Cyber Crime: the risks for the economy and the enterprises" (PDF). UNICRI's website. Round Table Agenda. November 2013.
  13. ↑ "ITU Geneva: Poste Italiane signs a new partnership for Cybersecurity" (PDF). Poste Italiane's website (Press Release). October 2009.
  14. ↑ "ITU Geneva: Poste Italiane signs a new partnership for Cybersecurity" (Press Release). ITU IMPACT's website. October 2009.
  15. 1 2 "RSA joins European Electronic Crime Task Force" (Press Release). DataManager's website (in Italian). February 2011.
  16. ↑ "RSA Conference Europe Announces Full Keynote Line-Up for Annual Information Security Event". Reuters. September 2011.
  17. ↑ "RSA Conference Europe Announces Full Keynote Line-Up for Annual Information Security Event". BusinessWire. September 2011.
  18. ↑ Banche e Sicurezza 2013 (June 2013). "Le strategie di protezione tra cybercrime e sicurezza fisica nelle banche e nei settori più a rischio" (PDF) (Event Agenda) (in Italian).
  19. ↑ "IT Security and Frauds Working Group". ABILab's website (in Italian).
  20. ↑ "Camera: commissione Trasporti, oggi dalle 14 audizioni su sicurezza reti" (Press Release) (in Italian). ASCA. December 2012.
  21. ↑ "Public Hearing of the EECTF Chairman at the Chamber of Deputies of Italian Parliament on EECTF activities and trends of cyber security in Italy" (Video Stream). YouTube (in Italian). December 2012.
  22. ↑ "Public Hearing of the EECTF Chairman at the Chamber of Deputies of Italian Parliament on EECTF activities and trends of cyber security in Italy" (Stenographic Report). Italian Chamber of Deputies website (in Italian). December 2012.
  23. ↑ "Public Hearing of the EECTF Chairman at the Chamber of Deputies of Italian Parliament on EECTF activities and trends of cyber security in Italy" (Audio Streaming and Podcast). Italian Parliament Web Radio (in Italian). December 2012.
  24. ↑ "Home - ABI Lab". abilab.it.
  25. ↑ "Events - Global Cyber Security Center - GCSEC". gcsec.org.
  26. ↑ "Poste: contro il crimine informatico oggi a Roma l'EECTF". Quotidiano Finanza (in Italian). March 2010.
  27. ↑ "EECTF work praised by Poste Italiane's Sarmi". Post&Parcel. February 2011.
  28. ↑ "Poste Italiane: summit task-force Italia-Usa contro crimini informatici". Wall Street Italia (in Italian). May 2011.
  29. ↑ "CERT's and International Cooperation Networks". SERIT - Security Research in Italy. April 2013.
  30. ↑ "NESSoS invited presentation at EECTF 2013". NESSoS FP7 Project. April 2013.
  31. ↑ "CERT-EU News Monitor". europa.eu.
  32. ↑ "English section". garanteprivacy.it.
  33. ↑ "US Ambassador to Italy, David Thorne, speaks at European Electronic Crime Task Force summit" (Press Release). US Embassy to Italy's website (in Italian). May 2011.
  34. ↑ "United States Secret Service: Rome Electronic Crimes Task Force". secretservice.gov.
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