... 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 ...
... 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,...
... signed the Tech Accord and among them Facebook, CISCO, Dell, Microsoft, Nokia, Panasonic, Telefonica, and others. Siemens Charter has 11 supporters, including Airbus, IBM and T-Mobile. In the next few years we are likely to witness a "cascade of cyber norms" proposed by non-state actors, as well as their gradual internalization.
To conclude, the current state of affairs can be described as an intermediate phase in cybersecurity diplomacy: states have made considerable efforts to develop international cyber law, but it was proved impossible to agree on legally binding rules. The most likely scenario for now is that states will closely follow the initiatives of non-state ...
On March 14-16, Berkeley hosted Global Cyberspace Cooperation Summit
On March 14-16, Berkeley hosted Global Cyberspace Cooperation Summit organized by East West Institute and attended by over 150 experts, government and business representatives from a number of countries. RIAC website editor Maria Smekalova talked to Marina Kaljurand, former Estonian Minister for Foreign Affairs, National Expert at the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and...
