... rhetoric, rather than dialogue, has prevailed. Yet, the OEWG keeps on working in the UN venues, which inspires certain optimism
September 2023 marks the 25
th
anniversary... ... move in 1998, as 25 years ago Russia became the first country to raise the issue of information security at the UN, having timely assessed the risks of the digital future... ... ICT environment. In particular, the UNGA resolution “Creating a global culture of cybersecurity and taking stock of national efforts to protect critical information infrastructures”...
... convergence and cooldown in U.S.-Russian relations on issues pertaining to international information security (IIS), the latter being witnessed by us today.
Moscow remains open... ... deterrence of Russia in cyberspace, so reaching agreements in the near future seems rather unlikely.
Amid a complex geopolitical environment, communication between the two countries... ... determining possible areas of cooperation between the two nations in the long term.
Cybersecurity as a foreign policy priority for Russia and the U.S.
Oleg Shakirov:
Mutual...
There is urgent need to establish an international mechanism, dedicated to addressing the most grievous cybercrimes
In the current international environment, the significance of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is steadily rising. In this context, international cooperation is gradually moving towards a legal architecture for ICT governance and international information security (IIS) as an integral part of the overall international security framework. One of the key global challenges on this path is cybercrime. In a broader sense, cybercrime can be defined as criminal activity related to the ICT environment....
... the contrary, their detention has already been
extended
three times. Nevertheless, whatever the role of the arrested members, cybersecurity experts noticed in summer 2022 that
REvil
had actually got reset and
restarted
its attacks, albeit
on a smaller scale
thus far.
Vague prospects
Russia’s return to full-fledged bilateral contacts with the United States on information security, as well as many other topics, is unlikely until the conflict in Ukraine is over and once the situation normalizes....
Interview with Dr. Daniel Stauffacher, Founder and President of ICT4Peace
On March 12, 2021, the United Nations
adopted
a UN Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) report ... ... accessible on the official UN ODA website. Besides, in cooperation with the OAS, UN ODA and Kenya, ICT4Peace organized a series of cybersecurity policy and diplomacy training workshops for Latin American and African diplomats.
On Friday, March 12, 2021, after ...
... context of international security, discuss these issues at the United Nations as well as envision confidence- and capacity-building measures.
More practical steps feature the recommendation that states nominate a national Point of Contact responsible for information security at the technical, policy and diplomatic levels who would then be included into a kind of international directory.
A group of over 40 countries led by France and Egypt managed to get an initiative of their own—
proposed
back in the fall of 2020 and urging to introduce a permanent forum on cybersecurity to replace the OEWG and GGE—included in the recommendations. The initiative, dubbed as the Programme of Action for Advancing Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace, appears in one of the paragraphs in the OEWG report, which lends weight ...
