ICRC & LHC Agree Partnership for Digital Humanitarian Action

Cybersecurity Luxembourg has announced that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)’s Global Cyber Hub in Luxembourg and the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity (LHC) have signed a cooperation agreement to address challenges for neutral and independent humanitarian action in cyberspace and the digital age.

Cybersecurity Luxembourg, the national cybersecurity portal of the Grand Duchy, reported on Tuesday 28 October 2025, that the agreement coincided with the occasion of Cybersecurity Month and the Autumn Edition of the Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg Campaign.

The agreement covers cybersecurity, threat analysis and the use of open-source technology to enable independence and resilience of digital infrastructure and assets, as well as protections under international law for international organisations.

Cybersecurity Luxembourg said that, given their complementary missions and shared commitment to cybersecurity and digital resilience, the cooperation between the Global Cyber Hub and the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity provides “a strong foundation for building a secure, inclusive and principled digital space, benefiting humanitarian work and contributing to a more open, dynamic and trusted society”.

LHC provides a range of cybersecurity-related services together with their two hosted national centres of excellence:

⁃             Computer Incident Response Centre Luxembourg (CIRCL)

⁃             National Cybersecurity Competence Centre (NC3)

According to Cybersecurity Luxembourg, the aim of the centres is to capitalise on expertise while developing innovation, competencies, collaboration and capacity building for the country’s companies, institutions and other stakeholders in order to build an open cybersecurity data economy.

The ICRC Global Cyber Hub, based in Luxembourg, was established to enable the ICRC to be and be seen as a neutral, impartial, independent humanitarian actor and to deliver on its standard working modalities of proximity to people, do-no-harm and confidentiality in its use of cyberspace and digital technologies. It leverages its dedicated expertise and infrastructure in Luxembourg and its collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, to support ICRC field delegations’ efforts to integrate the cyber and digital dimensions in their operations management and response and to deliver on the ICRC’s institutional ambition to lead by example on principled digital transformation.

Pascal Steichen, CEO of the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity, said: “The Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity is humbled to collaborate with the ICRC’s Global Cyber Hub to enable Luxembourg’s expertise to serve the critically important humanitarian work in order to encourage an open and trusted global society, two values that Luxembourg holds dear.”

Els Debuf, Head of Delegation for Cyberspace and Global Cyber Hub, remarked: “The collaboration with LHC is an essential part of our connection to Luxembourg’s cyber ecosystem, and helps foster a trusted and dynamic environment for knowledge exchange, tool sharing and collaboration. Such collaborations help us to develop the technological, policy and legal tools the ICRC needs to enable neutral, independent and impartial humanitarian action, as well as operational resilience and relevance, in cyberspace and the digital age.”