Harvard Business Review has written an article discussing the World Economic Forum’s Cybercrime Atlas project and how it supports global information sharing to help reduce cybercrime. This initiative aims to provide a platform that academics, cybersecurity companies, national and international law enforcement agencies, and global businesses can access to share threat information regarding the global cybercrime ecosystem.

The benefit of the Atlas system would be taking the data shared with the project and giving analysts the ability to sort and categorize the information into different “maps,” or views. By bringing together public and private information sources, the initiative hopes to make it easier to find the points of failure in the cybercrime ecosystem, as well as give governments a better understanding of where it can protect the security gaps that private companies aren’t able to cover. Read more at Harvard Business Review.