Search: Critical infrastructure (5 materials)

Securitization of Physical Cyberspace Infrastructure as a Nexus in U.S.-Russia Relations: The Case of Submarine Communications Cables

... sovereignty [ 25 ]. Looking towards the future, the United States and Russia have made concerted steps to establish a common set of cybernorms. During the 2021 Russia-United States Summit in Geneva, President Biden annunciated that cyberattacks on sixteen critical infrastructure sectors, including the communications sector, would lead to cyberspace-based retaliation [ 26 ]. The communications sector forms one of the sixteen critical sectors, and furthermore “terrestrial” and “wireline” transmission ...

18.02.2022

Cyber Diplomacy at Kaspersky

... upsurge of interest in this field. We have also started to advance our activities in this area further. Why? There are growing threats and challenges in cyberspace, which are impossible to solve at the national level only. These include protection of critical infrastructure (CI), incident response and mitigation in the event of significant cyberattacks affecting critical infrastructure in multiple jurisdictions, and cross-border cybercrime investigations. Without international institutions and cooperation,...

12.07.2021

Putin and Biden’s Cyber Summit

... ransomware (along with the Colonial Pipeline, hospitals and city authorities have faced this problem during the past two years as late May saw an attack against the large meat producer JBS ). Second, the President proposed that the sides agree that critical infrastructure should not be a target for cyberattacks. At the press conference, he said that he had given Russia a list of 16 critical infrastructure sectors. Curiously, this list was approved in the United States back in 2013 and includes ...

29.06.2021

Strategic Instability in the Era of Information and Communication Technologies: Crisis or the New Norm?

... as protecting U.S. interests in space, “deterring aggression and defending the Nation,” as well as “projecting military power in, from and to space.” Anastasia Tolstukhina: Is the United States Carrying out Cyberattacks Against Russia’s Critical Infrastructure? In addition to technological developments, experts from various countries increasingly point to the role that psychology plays in influencing strategic stability in the modern world. Western society and its political elites no ...

07.11.2019

Cyberwarfare without Rules

... Service of the Russian Federation Sergei Naryshkin said that the Russian security services were aware of planned cyberattacks and informed the relevant authorities in a timely manner. The question of the likelihood of cyberattacks being carried out on critical infrastructure was even put to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin during a live Q&A on Russian television, to which he responded : “As to the operation of our critical infrastructure, including power and other areas, we must ...

24.07.2019

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