Orange Cyberdefense has joined the Cybercrime Atlas initiative, a collaborative effort hosted by the World Economic Forum. The aim of this initiative is to develop Cosmos, a universal ontology that maps, classifies, and connects various components of the cybercriminal ecosystem. This effort aims to empower law enforcement agencies, researchers, and private sector experts with tools to collaboratively understand and disrupt cybercrime on a global scale.
Orange Cyberdefense’s involvement in this initiative marks a significant change in how organizations collaborate against cybercrime. It will provide critical intelligence about cyber threats, research expertise, and technological capabilities through an interactive knowledge-graph platform. The synergy between these stakeholders will enhance intelligence sharing, coordinated analysis, and collective action across the global cybersecurity community.
Cybercrime has become a borderless and industrialized threat, thriving on a complex web of specialized actors, criminal marketplaces, and monetization channels. Recognizing this, Orange Cyberdefense is contributing to the initiative on a pro bono basis, partnering with experts from both the private and academic sectors to support research, data collection, and intelligence structuring.
Furthermore, they are supplying the World Economic Forum with a customized visualization application. This application, based on the technology from Orange’s Cybercrime Now platform, helps to reveal intricate connections between threat actors, infrastructure, services, marketplaces, intermediaries, and monetization pathways.
Seán Doyle, Lead of the Cybercrime Atlas at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity, remarked, “The Cybercrime Atlas capitalizes on open-source research and the extensive knowledge of leading companies and experts to map cybercrime networks. The insights generated are supporting greater cooperation between the private sector and public sector to combat cybercrime.”
The Cybercrime Atlas initiative represents a pioneering approach to mapping and disrupting cybercriminal activities, highlighting the increasing need for cross-sector collaboration in the battle against global cybercrime. For more details on this initiative, visit the World Economic Forum’s website.
