With a total of 152 countries now formally part of the ITU-IMPACT coalition, and with strong support from industry giants, partners from academia, and international organizations, IMPACT is the largest cybersecurity alliance of its kind.

IMPACT offers ITU's Member States access to expertise, facilities, and resources to effectively address cyber threats, as well as assist United Nations agencies in protecting their ICT infrastructures.

The IMPACT initiative was first announced by the fifth prime minister of Malaysia during the closing ceremony of the 15th World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) Archived 2013-01-10 at the Wayback Machine 2006, held in the Austin, Texas, United States.

[5] [6] The IMPACT Global Headquarters was officially declared open on 20 May 2009 by the 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi, witnessed by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dato' Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak and the secretary-general of the ITU, Hamadoun Touré and IMPACT's chairman, Datuk Mohd Noor Amin Archived 2013-03-26 at the Wayback Machine Through the GRC, IMPACT provides the global community with a network early warnings system (NEWS), expert locator, team management, remediation, automated threat analysis system, trend libraries, visualization of global threats, country-specific threats, incident and case management, trend monitoring and analysis, knowledge base, reporting, and resolution finder among others.

In addition to this, during the 2011 WSIS Forum, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between ITU and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) which will see IMPACT supporting both organizations in their collaboration to assist UN member states to mitigate risks posed by cybercrime.

[8] As of 2013[update] International Advisory Board (IAB) members included: Past members include Vinton G. Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist, Google, Howard Schmidt, the former White House Cyber Security Coordinator of the Obama and Bush Administrations, United States of America, Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer of F-Secure, John W. Thompson, former chairman of the board, Symantec Corporation and Ayman Hariri, chairman of Oger Systems.