... 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 of Russia’s revolutionary 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. In those days, widespread digitalization was just gaining momentum and the flywheel of the global Internet spread and development started spinning faster. Nevertheless,...
... the U.S. Congress. During the 2018 meeting between the two leaders in Helsinki, Russia offered cooperation in preventing cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, but Washington
rejected
that initiative as well.
Collaboration between Russia and the United States to promote information security in historical perspective
Arevik Martirosyan:
Time for an International Cyber Court?
The dynamics of negotiations changed under Joe Biden. On September 25, 2020, President Vladimir Putin proposed a project called to normalize U....
... collecting evidence from a technical point of view makes it difficult to establish the involvement of a particular state in any particular cyberattack.
Besides, there is a problem which boils down to the fact that there is a lack of consensus on the fundamental issues of international information security (IIS). For example, we see no uniform understanding of key terms. Moreover, states not only interpret them differently, but also use different terms. There are serious ideological differences on various aspects of ICT use and regulation....
... 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. Until then, Moscow and Washington should focus on multilateral talks, preventing incidents in cyberspace, and maintaining ...
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 on the Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security. We asked Dr....
... while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs lauded the significance of the moment in its
official commentary
.
To better understand why the adoption of the report has exactly seen such a success, we need to take a trip into the recent past. The issue of information security was included in the UN agenda in 1998, after Russia presented its draft resolution “Achievements in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security” to the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. Negotiations have ...
