The welfare of our societies increasingly depends on digital technologies, which are vulnerable and prone to cyberattacks. Businesses are facing growing normative and regulatory pressures to enhance the trustworthiness and security of their products and supply chains. The absence of a shared vision and pathway towards achieving digital product security is compounded by a lack of capacity. 

The Geneva Dialogue on Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace helps to shape a joint vision regarding the security of digital products with leading businesses, and enhances their understanding of and contribution to global policy processes in order to achieve a trusted, secure, and stable cyberspace.

Under the Geneva Dialogue’s broader scope of clarifying the roles and responsibilities of actors – states, civil society and communities, and the business sector, – to contribute to greater security and stability in cyberspace, it is particularly focused on the roles of companies in securing their digital products and overall supply chain. Building on its groundbreaking work in 2020, most notably the collection of good industry practices, the Geneva Dialogue will endeavour to:

• Develop common policy baseline requirements for boosting the security of digital products and look into approaches for the broad implementation of the agreed baseline requirements.
• Enhance the feedback loop between corporate efforts and cybersecurity processes that develop norms, regulations, policies, and standards, as well as support businesses to follow and contribute to those processes at the regional and international levels.

To activate synergies, expand capacities, and incentivise implementation, the Geneva Dialogue will deepen its collaboration with other multilateral and multistakeholder initiatives in this area.

The Geneva Dialogue is led by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), and implemented by DiploFoundation.