Global Cyber Alliance

The Domain Trust Action Working Group (DTAWG) has been meeting since June 2025. After seven sessions with over thirty registries, registrars, and abuse experts worldwide, the work is becoming real — and so are the challenges. This progress report was prepared ahead of ICANN 86 in Seville. Picture a small blue-and-teal badge on a registry’s The post Imagining the Domain Trust Badge in Action appeared first on GCA | Global Cyber Alliance.

Andrei Robachevsky recently joined the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast to discuss why routing security is a critical business and governance issue for organizations of all sizes. The conversation highlighted how internet routing failures can silently reroute traffic across the globe without triggering traditional enterprise security alerts. The discussion emphasized that routing security is no longer just The post The Invisible Layer: Governing Routing Security as a Supply Chain Risk appeared first on GCA | Global Cyber Alliance.

As part of our continued work to strengthen Internet Integrity, the Global Cyber Alliance team will participate in several important discussions and presentations during RIPE 92 next week in Edinburgh, Scotland. Monday, 18 May, 9:30 – 12:30 (UTC +1) Internet Integrity Workshop III: Residential Proxies GCA is hosting the invitation-only parallel event “Internet Integrity Workshop The post GCA at RIPE 92: Tackling Residential Proxy Abuse and Strengthening Internet Integrity appeared first on GCA | Global Cyber Alliance.

[Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit blog at https://gcatoolkit.org/blog/small-businesses-big-risks-cybersecurity-starts-here/.] The World Economic Forum estimates that 400 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) worldwide account for approximately 90% of all businesses, 70% of employees, and 50% of global GDP. This week, the United States celebrates National Small Business Week 2026, which The post Small Businesses, Big Risks: Cybersecurity Starts Here appeared first on GCA | Global Cyber Alliance.

In late 2025, the Global Cyber Alliance Brussels (GCAB) became part of a 12-country, 17-organisation, multidisciplinary consortium that, over 36 months, will deliver OSPREY Online Safety and Security for Protection of Public-Facing Professionals and Democratic Resilience, a project co-funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement No. 101225639.  OSPREY addresses the escalating risks faced by The post Introducing the OSPREY Consortium to Strengthen Protections for Public-Facing Professionals appeared first on GCA | Global Cyber Alliance.

From: https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2026/04/outpaced-by-ai-can-radical-collaboration-save-small-business-from-cyber-extinction/ “The human-speed defense of small business is being obliterated by the machine-speed offense of AI-driven cybercrime. Today, what large companies treat as a manageable risk is a terminal expense for small enterprises, with 60% of small enterprises shutting down within six months of a major attack. As AI-crafted phishing lures achieve a 54% The post Brian Cute on the Techsequences Podcast appeared first on GCA | Global Cyber Alliance.

Introduction | Protecting Yourself From Travel Scams Travel is meant to be exciting or productive, but it increasingly comes with digital risks. Booking flights, reserving hotels, and planning activities now happen almost entirely online, which creates more opportunities for scammers to step in. As technology improves, so do the tactics used to trick travelers into The post Don’t Pack a Scam | How to Travel Smart in a Digital World appeared first on GCA | Global Cyber Alliance.

Executive Summary The Global Cyber Alliance was recently asked about the surge of cyberattacks affecting France and if we see evidence that French infrastructure is being attacked more than before.  We analyzed events observed through GCA’s AIDE platform, which provides visibility into large-scale distributed attack activity, including automated scanning, exploitation attempts, botnet propagation, infrastructure concentration, The post Cyberattacks on France Are Rising—Here’s What the AIDE Data Shows appeared first on GCA | Global Cyber Alliance.

In the latest AI Experience Podcast, “The Coming Tsunami of AI-Powered Scams,” GCA President & CEO Brian Cute explored how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming cybercrime—from phishing emails and deepfakes to fully automated scam operations. He explained how cybercrime has become an organized, global business, how generative AI is lowering the cost of attacks, and why The post AI Experience Podcast: The Coming Tsunami of AI-Powered Scams appeared first on GCA | Global Cyber Alliance.

At its March meeting, the Global Cyber Alliance’s Board of Directors appointed Brian Cute GCA’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Cute has served as Interim CEO since September 2025, when founding CEO Philip Reitinger retired.  Under Cute’s leadership, GCA is accelerating its work of bringing people together to strengthen the Internet’s foundations and delivering practical tools that The post Brian Cute Appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Cyber Alliance appeared first on GCA | Global Cyber Alliance.