Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has chaired a high-level meeting of the United Nations Security Council, addressing violent extremism, warning the Council of a new generation of 'innovative' terror networks.
Australia holds the rotating Security Council presidency for the month of November.
Ms Bishop told the Security Council today's terror networks are younger, more violent, more innovative and highly interconnected.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon opened the meeting, calling on all countries to address social inclusion to protect people from radicalisation.
"People need equality and opportunity in their lives. They need to feel inclusion by their governments and trust from their leaders. As we work together to address the challenge, we must also strive to avoid responses to terrorism that are carried out in a way that exacerbates the problem," he said.
The UN's Counter-Terrorism Committee told the meeting some states had failed to "adequately criminalise" travel-by terrorists who transit through their territories on the way to other countries.
It also reported gaps in the international exchange of information between law enforcement and intelligence agencies to bring terrorists to justice.
Australia's ambassador to the UN, Gary Quinlan told the meeting the self-proclaimed Islamic State's seizure of oil fields in Syria and Iraq, and the group's ability to use smuggling routes to sell oil, is earning them up to $1.78 million a day.
Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop told the meeting the world has never been more at risk of terrorism.
"The threat from ISIL or Daesh, Al-Nusrah Front and other affiliated groups is more dangerous, more global and more diversified than ever before," she said.
"Terrorists are younger, more violent, more innovative and highly interconnected. They are masters of social media to terrorize and to recruit and are very tech savvy. They incite each other. They communicate their propaganda and violence directly into our homes to recruit disaffected young men and women."
Mr Bishop said Security Council member states have agreed to a presidential statement on terrorism, to stop the recruitment and travel of foreign terrorist fighters, to reject their ideologies and to disrupt terror funding sources.
Meanwhile, French authorities have identified a second French militant who appears on a beheading video released by IS at the weekend.
Officials say that one of the men shown herding prisoners to their execution is Maxime Hauchard, a Frenchman Muslim convert who left for Syria in 2013.
They also identified a second Frenchman, Mickael Dos Santos - a 22-year-old man from a town east of Paris who converted to Islam and left for Syria in August, 2013 - in the video.
"It's hugely sad, because to think that a young man could have been misled into a sort of organised crime, because when you see the Daesh armed gangs, it's a mafia armed with heavy weapons, it's not a state, it's not an ideal, they're people who kill for everything and nothing. It's an abomination," said Dominique Adenot, the mayor of Champigny-sur-Marne, where French authorities say Mr Dos Santos was born.
It comes as a Dutch mother defied official travel warnings to rescue her daughter, who had joined IS in Syria.
Last month the woman, named only as Monique, received an appeal for help from her 19-year old daughter Aicha.
The girl had converted to Islam and travelled to Syria to marry a notorious Dutch jihadi, but a year later wanted to go home.
Wearing a burqa, Monique travelled to the Syrian city of Raqqa and managed to sneak her daughter out to Turkey.
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