... 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 as a foreign policy priority for Russia and the U.S.
Oleg Shakirov:
Mutual Warning: What Ended the Short Cyberspace Detente Between Russia and the United States
In 1998, Russia turned to the United States with a proposal to sign a bilateral ...
... attacks against Russia by various pro-Ukrainian groups, primarily the IT army, in which citizens of Western nations are
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 defendants were not released after the conflict broke out. On the contrary, their detention has already been
extended
three ...
... 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 ...
... to cybersecurity
and
The Future of Cyber Conflicts
.
Do you mean that Kaspersky’s participation was not limited to the
GR/Public Affairs
team and it was an extended collaborative process that welcomed technical experts? And your comments for the OEWG had a strong technical basis, right?
Absolutely. From the very beginning we said our company had expertise in cybersecurity research. And that’s it. We cannot talk about international law: neither I, nor anyone else in the company has this expertise. We cannot talk about whether and how international law or international humanitarian law applies to cyberspace....
... security into a single permanent forum which would hold regular meetings as well as review and
ad hoc
thematic sessions and which would enjoy certain Secretariat support. This proposal was the most practical and results-oriented option submitted to the OEWG. It was in line with ICT4Peace’s long-standing call to institutionalize the UN cybersecurity work by establishing a Committee on Cyber Security under the General Assembly and provide such a committee with dedicated Secretariat support via a UN Office of Cyber Affairs.
... levels who would then be included into a kind of international directory.
A group of over 40 countries led by France and Egypt managed to get an initiative of their 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, dubbed as the Programme of Action for Advancing Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace, appears in one of the paragraphs in the OEWG report, which lends weight to it and serves as the ...
... 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
Cybersecurity problems are tightly included in the new agenda of international relations, which stresses the importance of their comprehensive study, now more relevant than ever. The work raises several issues that appear to be important for a modern ...
... materials on how international law applies to the use of ICT by states.
Complementarity Instead of Competition
Ilona Stadnik:
A New Cybersecurity Diplomacy: Are States Losing Ground in Norm-making?
On the whole, Russia and the United States proposed two largely ... ... between the parties that would be complementary rather than competitive. Moreover, the GGE and the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) can motivate each other to develop and steadily move towards a rapprochement, since neither group would want to lag behind ...
