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Pavel Sharikov:
Great Russian-Chinese Cyberwall
The Obama administration and the Democratic Party certainly have fundamental contradictions with the Republican majority on several sensitive matters, cybersecurity being one of them.
Finally, smart leadership can be seen in countering the cyberthreat that has become so prominent that Mr. Obama appealed to Republican legislators about the need for adopting a new cybersecurity act.
Ostensibly unimpressed ...
The threat emanating from virtual space and Internet technologies has become a traditional challenge in the 21st century, as human progress is already inseparably linked to the Internet. However, these threats vary depending on their origin, the tools that are at the disposal of the attackers and the scale of damage. How are these threats seen by anti-virus companies? We asked
Boris Sharov
, CEO of the Russia’s oldest anti-virus company Doctor Web, to share his views on the problem and to...
On December 3-5, 2014, RIAC Program Assistant
Maria Gurova
took part in the
Global Cyberspace Cooperation Summit V
held in Berlin and sponsored by the EastWest Institute and German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The event was opened by
Bruce McConnell
, Senior Vice President of the EastWest Institute, after which the audience was welcomed by German Federal Minister for the Interior
Thomas de Maizière
and
Norbert Riedel
,
Commissioner for International Cyber Policy of the Federal Foreign...
The future is not far away: from genes to drugs
In an alternative version of the history of mankind presented in the cult animated television series of the mid-1990s Shinseiki Evangelion (
Neon Genesis Evangelion
), earthlings will face another apocalypse in 2015, prepared by scientists involved in genomics, cloning and bioinformatics. The authors call it the Third Impact.
In the middle of the last century, Professor Igor Tamm, a distinguished physicist and a Nobel Prize winner, argued that the...
Russian diplomacy is in dire need of support from China
Cybersecurity challenges are becoming increasingly important for ensuring Russia's national security. The issues of protecting information resources are coming to the fore in Russian foreign and domestic policy. There is reason to believe that the topic ...
Cyberpunk: Predictions and Reality
In recent decades, individuals, society and the world as a whole have been changing at breakneck speed, necessitating scientific approaches to predicting future developments. However, science-based prediction is a relatively young discipline, while authors of fiction – and especially science fiction – have been attempting to model societal and technological changes for centuries. One particularly interesting trend is cyberpunk, a science fiction sub-genre...
RIAC’s Working Paper “Russia and Challenges of the Digital Environment” offers an inventive view on the problem of Big Data and its relationship with the nation’s digital sovereignty. Among other things, the paper considers the quickly evolving Big Data biological and medical segments, touching upon such critical matters as the possible emergence of targeted weapons able to target and injure specific groups of living beings, including humans. The rapidly growing volume of...
Internet governance is now one of the most lively and important topics in international relations. The issue has long been ignored and restricted to small silos of experts. However, the leaks disclosed by Edward Snowden triggered a massive response to the historical “stewardship” of the Internet by the United States.
The stakes are high: today 2.5 billion people are connected to the web, and by 2030, the Internet is likely to represent 20% of the world’s GDP
[1]
. Beyond mere figures...
On May 28, 2014 two prestigious internationally-focused non-governmental organizations met to discuss important and emerging geopolitical issues and agreed on a program of cooperation to promote security and peace among East and West.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Ross Perot, Jr.,
EWI
Chairman of the Board, convened the joint meeting and discussion in RIAC’s offices in Moscow.
Participants included RIAC members and other Russian thought leaders, and EWI board members and staff...
Working paper #15 / 2014
This working paper was written as part of the Russian International Affairs Council’s project “Information Security, Response to Cyber Threats and the Use of the Internet to Defend Russia’s National Interests on the International Scene.”
In their articles, the authors expound on Russia’s presence in cyberspace and suggest the identification of a reference point from which to develop the discussion and seek an effective strategy for Russian participants in global internet...
