... of ties and relations
There have been periods of convergence and cooldown in U.S.-Russian relations on issues pertaining to international information security (IIS),... ... 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... ... state sovereignty, peaceful resolution of disputes, inadmissibility of unproven accusations of cyberattacks, etc.
In the early 2000s, this topic, largely due to the efforts...
... to regulate tech giants around the world have marked global long-term trends. The authors of this working paper take a closer look at recent key changes in Big Tech regulation both at the international level and in individual jurisdictions of the EU, USA, China and Russia, examining the different ways in which governments have tried to strike a regulatory balance between freedom and security, as well as between digital ecosystem development and healthy competition. This paper also includes an analysis of Big Tech’s ...
Cyberspace is increasingly becoming a major area of confrontation in the U.S.-Russia relations.
Since 1998, the UN has annually adopted a Russia-sponsored resolution titled Developments in the Field of ... ...
involved
.
By early fall, only the ongoing investigation into the
REvil
case reminded one of the achievements in the U.S.-Russian cybersecurity collaboration. Despite concerns in the U.S. that Russia would halt proceedings against the Group’s members, the ...
... by both sides, but these may well derive from differing levels of governance not necessarily within the context of the U.S.-Russia relationship
Submarine communications cables (SCCs) are essential to all contemporary forms of global communications.... ....org/docs/default-source/Publications/2013/2/Economic-Impact-of-Submarine-Cable-Disruptions/2013_psu_-Submarine-Cables.pdf
.
Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency. “Communications sector.” Accessed February 9, 2022.
https://www.cisa.gov/communications-sector
...
The joint U.S.–Russia draft resolution on international information security is a new milestone on the path towards establishing an international ... ... United States, Germany and the Netherlands. By the same token, the Western media continues to level mostly unsubstantiated accusations against Russia for its supposed involvement in cyberattacks, while cyber defence activities have become overly politicized....
... which was enshrined in strategic documents adopted during Trump’s presidency. However, this perception will most likely subsist under the current administration.
The first cyber crisis happened before Joe Biden’s inauguration. In December 2020, the cybersecurity company FireEye discovered that
SolarWinds
, a software package used by thousands of customers, including U.S. government agencies, had been hacked. The attack, which many believed had been carried out by Russia, was a big story in the media for weeks. Biden was eventually forced to make a statement about the attack, where he promised to make cybersecurity a
top priority
, ensuring that the people or governments behind the attacks would face a
forceful ...
... organizations—the European Leadership Network (ELN), the Munich Security Conference (MSC), the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)—work... ... Commission on Missing Persons, United States
Ambassador Richard Burt
Chairman, Global Zero USA, United States
Evgeny Buzhinskiy
Chairman of the PIR Center Executive Board; Vice-President... ... and Publics,” for a more in-depth discussion of missile defenses (pages 15–17), cybersecurity (pages 24–25), and space (pages 26–27), along with nuclear weapons...
... Working Group is a positive step forward, in spite of the global trend towards escalating tensions, especially those between Russia, China and the U.S.
We have two negotiating platforms, the GGE and the OEWG. What do you think about such co-existence?... ... 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 ...
... format for negotiations on security in cyberspace launched in 2018 at the initiative of Russia. The successful completion of the group’s work suggests that demand for such... ... 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... ... using the ICT for military and intelligence purpose as well as by numerous public accusations and threats emanating from both sides. One such example is the recent
New...
... 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 — and try to determine whether those activities amounted to cyber coercion.
Starting with the study findings, we will highlight the following points. Cyber operations intended to coerce are a small subset of overall ...
