... put forward at international platforms (such as the UN meetings, meetings of heads of state, foreign ministers).
At the end of the Urban Breakfast, experts answered the questions about the reasons for the excitement in international relations around cybersecurity issues, the reasons for the increase in the number of cybercriminals in Russia, and the specifics of cybercrime investigation.
Within the framework of the event, a position paper with proposals on Russia-U.S. cooperation in the area of cybersecurity prepared by RIAC jointly with American partners from EastWest Institute was presented to the audience....
... and probably has never been among the most prioritized, along with many other issues, including terrorism, Ukraine, Syria, economic sanctions, and many others.
While Russia and the U.S. feel the need to cooperate on settling pressing issues regarding cybersecurity, they seem to diverge over what should be done and over how international law could be applied.
In this context two parallel tracks should be promoted. The first one is cooperation on cybercrime prevention and counterterrorism measures. In part because they lack common terminology regarding cyberspace, Russia and the US fail to find common ground when talking about cybercrime prevention. What is more, the at times anonymous nature ...
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Sometimes states will promote writing new conventions so as not to apply what we have already.
We have already agreed that international law applies to cyber, which means that all the binding documents that states have today, being it from cybercrime or humanitarian law, on human rights – they do apply also to cyber. I don’t think that at this time we have to start writing anything new. I don’t exclude that at some point we will come to the stage where some pieces are missing in international ...
On October 11, 2016 the Russian International Affairs Council in cooperation with the
EastWest Institute
and with support from Microsoft held an international seminar “Russia-US Cooperation to Combat Cybercrime and Protect Critical Infrastructure.”
The experts’ discussion at the seminar focused on the issues of cooperation to combat cybercrime and cyber terrorism, protection of critical infrastructure, cyber attacks attribution, as well ...
