... and ways to better security. The paper is full of interesting observations focused on the belief that swift progress in developing information technologies and automating processes at all levels has generated a considerable lag in the development of cybersecurity procedures and culture, primarily in the historically secretive nuclear industry. This only gives rise to new risks and menaces.
Cybersecurity Vaccination for Nuclear Plants
Whereas the industrialized countries or those possessing the entire ...
Singapore — a case of spy envy
We live in a world that seems borderless and limitless. You can find almost anything you want with a short Google-search. Most of us do not believe (many do not even think about it) that we are being watched. Or to tune the paranoia down — we are not necessarily being watched right now, but we can be watched at any given date, time and place. How do you feel about it? That your government can extract your personal information from your laptop, tablet, cellphone?...
The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the
EastWest Institute
held an expert meeting with
Microsoft
representatives on 17 June 2015. The discussion touched upon such issues as U.S. regulatory practices in cybersecurity, the protection of critical public and private infrastructure online, the development of national strategies to counter cyber threats using the experience of the U.S. and the EU as well as opportunities for radical improvements in U.S.-Russian ...
Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Washington
The Democratic-led U.S. administration and hi-tech community located in San Francisco (often referred to as Silicon Valley) have always relied on each other. But according to recently published articles, there appear to be complications in their relationship. Currently, the most divisive difference between them seems to be innovations associated with the anonymous digital currency (“bitcoin”).
Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Washington
Wall...
Immutable and Problematic Aspects to the Cyber Realm
On April 1, 2015 President Barack Obama issued an executive order enabling the United States to “
block the property of certain persons engaging in significant malicious cyber-enabled activities
.” The President himself grandly declared the maneuver as “giving notice” to those who seek to damage or harm the national security, economy, or critical infrastructure of the United States.
He further defined this as disrupting or hijacking American...
... international standards, protectionist measures against Chinese equipment, the capturing of data and the conclusion of Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific trade agreements that exclude these two countries.
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Maxim Kornev:
Sovereign Cybersecurity
(in Russian)
The current institutional system allows the United States to maintain an unprecedented legal influence
via
the supremacy of their soft law and the English language. Debates over Internet governance are, unlike in Europe, followed ...
... Russian-American relations.
superbwallpapers.com
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...
