A new website that culls a wide range of cybersecurity-related information has been launched by a collaboration of schools at Oxford University.  The Cybersecurity Capacity Portal was developed by the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, based at the Oxford Martin School, in partnership with Oxford’s Saïd Business School.

The website was created to provide information to policy-makers or anyone who helps develop cybersecurity strategy at a national, international, or corporate level. The portal also provides details on the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre’s work, whose mission is to understand and deliver effective cyber capacity – both within the UK and internationally. Organizations collaborating with the Centre in this work include the Organization of American States and the World Bank.

The guidance mainly comes from UK or Europe-based organizations, but there is a healthy amount of international perspectives, from the UN to NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework. Users of the site will see information broken down into Issues and Threats, Regions, and Capacity Dimensions.

“Information on the portal is organised around the structure of a new Cybersecurity Capacity Capability Maturity Model (CMM) being developed by the Centre – this will enable policy-makers to understand what good cybersecurity looks like across various key aspects (or ‘dimensions’), and also to benchmark and measure their capacity over time”, the Centre said in a statement.

“Building capacity in cybersecurity is essential to keeping our online environments, societies and economies safe and prosperous”, commented Sadie Creese, the Centre’s director. “This new portal will be a one-stop shop for essential information on what is already being done around the world and what we can learn from those experiences to enable us to better increase the scale, pace and quality of cybersecurity. "

The Cybersecurity Capacity Portal is supported by a group of experts within Oxford’s Department of Computer Science and Cyber Security Centre, Oxford Internet Institute, and numerous external institutions worldwide, the Centre noted.

“Cybersecurity needs a multi-pronged approach, and here at the Business School we’ve been focusing on education, leadership and skills”, noted David Upton, a professor at the Saïd Business School. It’s increasingly clear that these risks need to be addressed at executive level, not just by the IT department, and this portal will be a key source of information to help with this.”