INTERPOL and NEC to Fight Against Cybercrime

INTERPOL and NEC Corporation have signed a three year partnership agreement. In this partnership NEC will provide the world police body with vital assistance in developing core elements of the Digital Crime Centre being established within the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation in Singapore.

This agreement was signed by Ronald K. Noble, INTERPOL Secretary General and Nobuhiro Endo, NEC President. According to this agreement NEC will provide technical and human resources worth some EUR 7.6 million to establish a Digital Forensic Lab and Cyber-Fusion Centre within INTERPOL’s Digital Crime Centre.

 Providing national authorities operational support against digital crime, the Centre will be the driving force of the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation which will open in Singapore in 2014.

 “In recent years, the threat of cyber-attacks that target personal information as well as sensitive corporate and government information has become a major problem throughout the world. NEC’s leading public safety, cloud and M2M solutions, in partnership with INTERPOL’s police network, the largest in the world, are sure to play a major role in strengthening security on a global scale,” said Nobuhiro Endo, President, NEC Corporation.

“Fighting cybercrime requires that law enforcement at the national and international level work with the private sector and forward-thinking technological leaders such as Japan’s NEC in order to keep pace with today's cybercriminals,”Ronald K. Noble, INTERPOL Secretary General.

The Digital Forensic Lab will focus on identifying and test-bedding digital forensic technology and methodologies to help investigators better coordinate and conduct digital crime investigations. Its activities will include trend analysis, testing of forensic tools, development of best practices, and capacity building and training.