... will total USD 14.1 billion, which is 15 per cent more than in 2019. The Pentagon’s space programmes are classified, which creates additional risks for strategic stability. It is known that projects are under way in the United States to develop reusable space hypersonic systems and micro spacecraft, intercept spacecraft with “inspector” satellites, and carry out kinetic and non-kinetic attacks on satellites. Projects for directed-energy impact on nuclear weapons command systems are particularly ...
... easier to do business.
Third, if single standards and rules are developed, those companies that fail to comply may be held accountable. This is an excellent way to consolidate one’s market standing and undermine competitors.
Steve Crown:
Microsoft Cybersecurity Initiatives
Finally, by calling for government regulations, companies will be able not merely to join the process of drafting rules that suit them, but to take the lead in this, especially since they have the groundwork already laid out....
What we need is not strategies against cyber coercion, which RAND experts call for, but international frameworks for precluding cyberspace conflicts.
What is cyber coercion and how have states used cyber operations to coerce others? These are the questions addressed in the RAND think tank's recent
report
"
Fighting Shadows in the Dark. Understanding and Countering Coercion in Cyberspace
". The authors discuss cyber operations conducted by four states — Russia, China, Iran and North Korea...
The possibility that decisions about the use of nuclear weapons will be influenced by information and communication technologies (ICTs) is the most serious threat that exists today.
Strategic stability is once again becoming a primary concern in international relations. The topic has received a great deal of attention of late, mainly because of the steady erosion of the reduction and limitation regime: the United States has now withdrawn from both the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty)...
... and a high level of oversight, thus making it possible to achieve outstanding successes with minimal expenses (India’s space program is a prime example), areas believed to be of secondary importance are plagued by chronic problems.
Until recently, cybersecurity was not one of the Indian government’s top priorities, and consequently, the relevant departments in state agencies were, as a rule, staffed residually. Since work in this area was not considered important or prestigious, employees working ...
... to consider the situation from the point of view of the security of critical infrastructure, the possibility of carrying out cyberattacks and the rules of conduct in ICT.
The Informational Security of Critical Infrastructure
Pavel Karasev:
New U.S. Cybersecurity Strategies
Protecting critical infrastructure from malicious attacks in the ICT environment is a crucial national security task, one that all developed countries are attempting to solve in one way or another. Each country draws up their ...
... hundreds of millions of users, such as the a widely-used mobile operating system platform, or the dependency of hundreds of thousands of businesses on central providers of Internet infrastructure, such as a major cloud service. It’s important for the ... ... resilience and safety in global cyberspace by protecting against financial losses from major cyber incidents and raising the cybersecurity baseline. Thus the report on cyber insurance and systemic risk is strategic and complementary to the Institute’s ...
The first U.S.-Russia joint view on how to deal with the interference problem
After his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
said
that Russia had proposed a mutual non-interference pledge. He recalled the
exchange
of letters between U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov in 1933 in which, in return for U.S. diplomatic recognition, Moscow made pledges not to interfere in U.S. domestic politics and...
On March 29, 2019, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a discussion on Russian Approaches to Ensuring Cybersecurity, organized by "Creative Diplomacy" Center and RIAC.
On March 29, 2019, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a discussion on Russian Approaches to Ensuring Cybersecurity, organized by "Creative Diplomacy" ...
... principal multilateral venue for information security talks, which in 2017 found itself at an impasse due to disagreements among its members. Now, though, there will be two groups…
A/RES/73/27 and A/RES/73/266
Maria Smekalova:
Close Your Eyes and Do It: Cybersecurity in 2018
Today, we can confidently state that the global discussion on international information security has been resumed. In November 2018, the United Nations General Assembly First Committee adopted two draft resolutions at once on the ...
