Our Deputy Executive Director, Nicole Primmer, participated in the UK Department for Science, Technology, and Innovation-Wilton Park Conference on Enhancing international cooperation on cyber regulation, where discussions focused on how to achieve a more interoperable regulatory landscape for cybersecurity at the international level. Joining a range of experts from governments, business associations, and companies, she underlined that international cooperation with strong business engagement is essential to reduce cybersecurity regulatory fragmentation, including related costs and risk that are diverting resources from cyber defense.
She also highlighted OECD as a key forum for dialogue among regulators, business and relevant stakeholders, to map and measure the impacts of cyber-regulatory fragmentation with the aim to advance coherent, interoperable, and collaborative cybersecurity policy solutions. As our members underline the urgency of addressing divergent and conflicting rules for cybersecurity compliance and defense, the need to streamline incidence reporting, address conflicting standards, as well as the need to improve capacity building for cybersecurity, in particular for SMEs, we continue to advocate that OECD take on this issue as a dedicated workstream going forward.