In a targeted and transnational cooperation, Europol and CSIS have entered into a strategic cooperation agreement which in the future will increase the effort against organized on-line crime. The purpose of the cooperation is a.o. to continuously exchange technical information and non-operational information which specifically will lead to investigation and arrest of IT criminals.
The agreement, which has just been entered into between Europol and CSIS, is a result of a specific increased attention to the increasing IT crime. With the knowledge from CSIS’s daily investigation of a.o. BOTnets, targeted attacks, and netbanking thieves, data can be shared with EC3 for the purpose of international investigation.
“Cybercrime is neither a national nor a regional problem – it is a global one. It is a challenge that cannot be solved solely by the police. It is, to a great extent, a task of public interest, which requires a much better cooperation between the police and other stakeholders, in particular IT security companies. Fortunately, Denmark has a number of world-class IT security companies, among them CSIS, which we have now signed a cooperation agreement with. Consequently, we can benefit from the synergy of our mutual expertise and within the legal framework exchange information and intelligence, which enables us to more precisely analyze threats and the networks behind them. In this way, we help each other to ensure that the Internet not only remains unrestrained and open but also becomes much safer. This agreement helps to make life easier for ordinary users and much harder for criminals who want to steal our data, money, ideas, identities and digital lives”, says Troels Ørting, the Head of the European Cybercrime Center at Europol.
“It is our goal to continually feed our partner EC3 with information which may be relevant for the investigation”, explains Peter Kruse who is founder and responsible for the day-to-day operations of CSIS’s special eCrime Unit. He continues: “We have to recognize that investigations of IT crime is high on the agenda in many countries, but that it is also a heavy and technically difficult task. The solution is, however, to strengthen information sharing between private security companies such as our company and the police. This new cooperation agreement is a fine example of this.”
EC3 was introduced last year as an action against cyber-crime, sharing of pedophile material, and for the protection of critical infrastructure in the European Union.
“It is our view that EC3’s justification as the focal point in investigation of IT crime has already produced results with several successful operations and arrests. We would like to have this trend continue”, explains Peter Kruse.
Further information about Europol/EC3:
https://www.europol.europa.eu/ec3
Further information about CSIS:
https://www.csis.dk/da/csis/about/