Policy Brief #54 / 2024
Policy Brief #54 / 2024
BRICS has successfully fulfilled its role as an international negotiating platform. For over a decade of its existence, member states have made hundreds of decisions on key issues on the agenda. The most general list of issues discussed within the framework of the association includes dozens of topics ranging from macroeconomic policy to countering extremism and terrorism, as well as the development of ICT and digital economy.
Numerous multilateral...
... Arab Emirates and Ethiopia.
Digital cooperation is one of the critical and most sought-after issues within BRICS. The agenda had taken shape as an independent area by 2015 through the efforts of Russia, whose initiatives in the field of international information security were not limited to BRICS but also have been supported at the UN level for many years. In 2015, the first meeting of BRICS communications ministers was held in Moscow, where the priorities of multilateral ICT collaboration
were articulated
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... formulated by the “father of the Chinese firewall” Fang Binxing who announced it in 2011 at the International Symposium on Information Security in Changsha. His idea is based on
four principles
: each country should have full control over its segment ... ... in cyberspace is an essential part of the digital sovereignty policy pursued by China. In 2016, China promulgated the
Law on Cybersecurity
and the
National Cyberspace Security Strategy
. The strategic planning documents emphasize the need to ensure sovereignty ...
... channels of communication instead of tearing relations completely. Drawing an analogy with the Cold War, one can argue that cybersecurity is becoming part of a new strategic stability equation in bilateral relations, despite Washington’s unwillingness ... ... Washington’s fault, the UN’s OEWG still serves as a channel of communication, which is especially important in promoting information security, where misattribution of a cyber incident can lead to escalation. The prospect of new bilateral agreements ...
... current international environment, the significance of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is steadily rising. In this context, international cooperation is gradually moving towards a legal architecture for ICT governance and international information security (IIS) as an integral part of the overall international security framework. One of the key global challenges on this path is cybercrime. In a broader sense, cybercrime can be defined as criminal activity related to the ICT environment....
Working Paper 71 / 2022
Working Paper 71 / 2022
Over the past few years, government efforts to regulate tech giants around the world have marked global long-term trends. The authors of this working paper take a closer look at recent key changes in Big Tech regulation both at the international level and in individual jurisdictions of the EU, USA, China and Russia, examining the different ways in which governments have tried to strike a regulatory balance between freedom and security, as well as...
... 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 times. Nevertheless, whatever the role of the arrested members, cybersecurity experts noticed in summer 2022 that
REvil
had actually got reset and
restarted
its attacks, albeit
on a smaller scale
thus far.
Vague prospects
Russia’s return to full-fledged bilateral contacts with the United States on information security, as well as many other topics, is unlikely until the conflict in Ukraine is over and once the situation normalizes. Until then, Moscow and Washington should focus on multilateral talks, preventing incidents in cyberspace, and maintaining ...
The joint U.S.–Russia draft resolution on international information security is a new milestone on the path towards establishing an international regime for information security
The first committee of the 76
th
session of the UN General Assembly has adopted a draft resolution on international information ...
... relations between the two countries may be at a low ebb, U.S. and Russian diplomats were actively engaged in adopting two important cybersecurity reports this spring: one in March under the auspices of the
OEWG
(which comprises all UN members) with another ... ... issue of combating cybercrime could, to some degree, be depoliticized. In that sense, the decision to launch consultations on information security is an important achievement that allows Moscow and Washington start looking for ways to arrive at more stable ...
