Orange Cyberdefense Backs Global Cybercrime Mapping Initiative ‘Cosmos’
Orange Cyberdefense is playing a key role in the initiative, contributing its cyber threat intelligence, open-source research expertise, and its technology know-how through the delivery of an interactive knowledge-graph platform to support this global effort.
Cybercrime now operates through a complex ecosystem involving specialized actors, criminal marketplaces, and sophisticated monetization channels. Addressing this threat requires a bold, collaborative effort at the international level to in the fight against cybercrime.
The ambition of the World Economic Forum-hosted Cybercrime Atlas initiative, ‘Cosmos’ is to create a shared universal ontology that maps, classifies and connects the components of the cybercriminal ecosystem, enabling law enforcement agencies, institutions, researchers, and private sector experts to collaboratively understand and disrupt global cybercriminal ecosystems.
Orange Cyberdefense is playing a key role in the initiative, contributing its cyber threat intelligence, open-source research expertise, and its technology know-how through the delivery of an interactive knowledge-graph platform to support this global effort.
“Cybercrime has become an industrial-scale societal threat that demands a collective, open-source response. Our collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the launch of ‘Cosmos’ exemplify our commitment to building trust through transparency, collaboration, and shared intelligence — essential for building a safer digital society.”
– Hugues Foulon, CEO, Orange Cyberdefense
The World Economic Forum’s Cybercrime Atlas initiative provides a vital platform for international cooperation. By leveraging open-source research and the collective expertise of leading organizations, ‘Cosmos’ aims to create a universal taxonomy of cybercrime, enabling stakeholders across sectors and borders to work together more effectively.
“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.”
– Seán Doyle, Lead of the Cybercrime Atlas, World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity
Orange Cyberdefense’s leadership in building a global, open-source defense
Orange Cyberdefense is contributing to the Cybercrime Atlas on a pro bono basis, working alongside private-sector and academic experts to support research, data collection and intelligence structuring. The company is also providing the World Economic Forum with a bespoke visualization application, built on the technology behind its Cybercrime Now platform. The tool allows users to navigate the cybercriminal ecosystem as an interactive knowledge graph, revealing the connections between threat actors, infrastructure, criminal services, marketplaces, intermediaries and monetization chains.
