Promoting Measures of Restraint in Cyber Armaments

Description: 

The cyber arms race is destabilizing to international order. A standing forum involving the private sector and civil society could develop and advocate norms. A “mutual cyber assistance request” protocol would enhance state-to-state cooperation and trust in cyber incident response.

2015 Accomplishments:

Recommended the creation of a non-governmental forum to develop and promote the adoption of emerging consensus norms of state behavior in cyberspace, initially focused on peacetime. 

2016-17 Objectives:

  • Collaborate to make such a forum into a reality.
  • Develop and advocate for a model “mutual cyber assistance request” protocol.

Promoting International Cyber Norms: A New Advocacy Forum

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RELATED PUBLICATIONS:

Report of the Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security

International Cybersecurity Norms: Reducing conflict in an Internet-dependent world

A Measure of Restraint in Cyberspace: Reducing Risk to Civilian Nuclear Assets

Working Towards Rules for Governing Cyber Conflict: Rendering the Geneva and Hague Conventions in Cyberspace

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