Review of the NTI report “Nuclear Weapons in the New Cyber Age”
The subject of the interrelation of threats in the fields of information and communication technologies and nuclear weapons is gradually becoming one of the dominant topics in current international security issues. In early summer 2019, a group of researchers working under the auspices of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) presented the Russian version of the “
Nuclear Weapons in the New Cyber Age
” report prepared by the Cyber-Nuclear...
... and the challenges it presents to the burgeoning cyber insurance industry. It features an overview of the current state of the cyber insurance market along with proposals to help the market mature in a healthy, stable manner while promoting increased cybersecurity. The report is available in English
here
.
Let us start with the basics, what is cyber insurance and why does it matter?
Anastasia Tolstukhina:
Business in Need of Cyber Rules
In its essence, cyber insurance is a simple concept, and the ...
Kaspersky Lab’s contract with the Brazilian armed forces will play the part of the proverbial canary in a coal mine: it will be indicative of the new Brazilian administration’s attitude towards Russian IT businesses going forward
Following the inauguration of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is known for his pro-American views, the already meager Russian-Brazilian relations can now be compared to a toss of a coin. This is in stark contrast to the rapid dynamics of Russian IT companies, which...
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...
... project, while partly supporting the idea. Third, suspicious international reactions are detrimental to the country’s image.
Pavel Sharikov:
Protecting Sensitive Data: The Experience of Russia and the US
3. Juggling various interests
Following the Cybersecurity law of 2017, China introduced the non-binding national standard Personal Information Security Specification that is somewhat similar to GDPR. The main focus of the document, however, lies in ensuring national security while still making ...
European Think Tanks reflect on the challenges of emerging military technologies
The following points are the fruit of a particularly rich and constructive
roundtable meeting
in Istanbul on 8-9 April of the Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe. The points are intended as material for policy discussion by Task Force participants with their authorities not definitive research. But we believe that they offer a useful perspective on the challenges presented by emerging military technologies...
... oblige governments not to take cyber attacks on private sector companies or the critical infrastructure of other states, and not to use hacker attacks to steal intellectual property.
Overall, the document formulates
six basic principles
of international cybersecurity:
No targeting of tech companies, private sector, or critical infrastructure.
Assist private sector efforts to detect, contain, respond to, and recover from events.
Report vulnerabilities to vendors rather than to stockpile, sell, or exploit ...
On April 22–25, 2019, the 13th International Forum on the Problems of International Information Security was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany).
On April 22–25, 2019, the 13th International Forum on the Problems of International Information Security was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany).
The forum was organized by the National Association for International Information Security (NAIIS) with the International Affairs Journal and gathered over 100 experts from 18 countries (the USA, the...
... the effectiveness that individual countries have in laying out the rules in cyberspace. To succeed, states need to be able to work collaboratively, and alongside industry, to ensure cyber security is effective around the globe.
Ilona Stadnik:
A New Cybersecurity Diplomacy: Are States Losing Ground in Norm-making?
There is no denying the fact that the UN has served as the main venue for talks on information security for the last 20 years. Russia has historically given these negotiations high importance,...
On April 8–9, 2019, Istanbul hosted a regular meeting of the international Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe.
On April 8–9, 2019, Istanbul hosted a regular meeting of the international Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe.
The meeting was organized by European Leadership Network (ELN) together with the Turkish Global Relations Forum (GIFGRF). The following issues were discussed at the meeting: new threats to security in the Euro-Atlantic — confrontation in cyberspace, an arms race...
