... communication between the two countries needs to be maintained for managing contradictions and reducing the risk of escalation in cyberspace. Today, bilateral interaction takes place on the platform of the UN Open-ended Working Group on the Safe Use of ICTs (OEWG), which was established at the initiative of Russia. Informal diplomacy of the expert community, business representatives and NGOs can play an important role in determining possible areas of cooperation between the two nations in the long term.
Cybersecurity ...
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 Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security. A year ago, however, Russia and the U.S.
for the first time submitted
a joint draft resolution on information security negotiations to the First Committee of the UN General Assembly. According to Andrey Krutskikh, the Russian...
... significant step forward in the bilateral cooperation in the field of international information security, especially given the fact that the United Nations hosted two competing platforms operating between 2019 and 2021, the Open‑Ended Working Group (the OEWG) established at Russia’s initiative and the Group of Governmental Experts (the GGE) led by the United States.
Oleg Shakirov:
Putin and Biden’s Cyber Summit
The joint draft resolution and a step towards an institutionalization of the dialogue ...
... company’s interest in this relatively new mode of diplomacy? Why should there be one negotiation process on information security issues under the auspices of the UN rather than two or three? What are the distinguishing features of operating within the OEWG framework for private companies? Anastasia Kazakova, Senior Public Affairs Manager at Kaspersky, spoke about this and much more in an exclusive interview with Russian International Affairs Council.
Kaspersky has cyber diplomacy as a separate direction ...
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.
Daniel Stauffacher
, Founder and President of ICT4Peace, to tell us about the current UN-led work on cyber security ...
Despite a successful adoption of the OEWG report, negotiators have yet to find compromises on key issues
On Friday March 12, 2021, the United Nations
adopted
the report of the UN Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the ...
States are no longer the only guarantors of personal security
In 2019, the book «India's strategic options in a changing cyberspace» written by Cherian Samuel and Munich Charma was published. (New Delhi, Pentagon Press LLP in association with Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, 2019). In their work, the authors examine the general concept of cyberspace, while extrapolating it to India's cyberspace dimension.
Cherian Samuel and Munich Charma: India's strategic options in a changing cyberspace...
... space;
cooperation in the fight against the use of ICT in criminal or terrorist purposes;
preventing the proliferation of malicious ICT tools and techniques and the use of harmful hidden functions.
Third, a new UN GGE – an Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) – is set to launch work in June 2019. Its chief task will be to continue to develop norms, rules and principles of the responsible behaviour of states in the information space and consider the issue of the applicability of international law to ...
