World powers agree on non-aggression in cyberspace
For the first time, a group of UN government experts on international information security was able to reach agreement on the rules of conduct in cyberspace. These rules promise to voluntarily comply with the 20 countries that have signed the treaty. Among them are Russia, USA, China, Great Britain, France, Brazil, Japan, South Korea and Israel.
The contract provides for several main points.
1. Do not attack the critical infrastructure of other countries (nuclear power plants, banks, transport or water management systems). ICTs should be used exclusively for peaceful purposes.
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2. Do not blame each other for cyber attacks without evidence.
3. Do not insert malicious bookmarks into IT products (the item was submitted at the initiative of Russia).
4. States have the sovereign right to manage the information and communication infrastructure on their territory and to determine their policies in the field of international information security.
5. All articles of the UN Charter are applicable to the information space, including Article 51, which guarantees the state the right to self-defense in the event of an armed attack. Given the statements of Washington on the right of armed response to cyber attacks, the report emphasizes that the world community needs to agree on key terms and concepts in the use of ICT. This includes such concepts as “armed attack”.
Western media have reported a big victory for American diplomacy . The Russian media look at events from the other side: “Russia stated the need to adopt standards of behavior of states in cyberspace back in 2011. At the same time, the Russian authorities tried not only to protect their resources from cyber threats in the narrow sense of the term (sabotage of software and hardware), but also to put a barrier on the way of using Internet technologies for military-political purposes (militarization of cyberspace, destabilization of ). Western countries (first of all, the United States) did not want to hear about any rules of behavior until recently. In the Russian initiatives, they saw only an attempt to establish greater control over the Internet and a desire to limit the cyber potential of other countries, ”Kommersant reports, citing a member of the UN government expert group, the special representative of the Russian president for international cooperation in information security, Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Krutskih (see interview ).
The report was submitted to the UN Secretary General for presentation at the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, which will be held in late September 2015. “But, since the norms recorded in the report were worked out by consensus within the framework of the UN mechanism, we can assume that they are already in the nature of existing UN recommendations,” Andrei Krutskikh explained.
The contract provides for several main points.
1. Do not attack the critical infrastructure of other countries (nuclear power plants, banks, transport or water management systems). ICTs should be used exclusively for peaceful purposes.
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2. Do not blame each other for cyber attacks without evidence.
3. Do not insert malicious bookmarks into IT products (the item was submitted at the initiative of Russia).
4. States have the sovereign right to manage the information and communication infrastructure on their territory and to determine their policies in the field of international information security.
5. All articles of the UN Charter are applicable to the information space, including Article 51, which guarantees the state the right to self-defense in the event of an armed attack. Given the statements of Washington on the right of armed response to cyber attacks, the report emphasizes that the world community needs to agree on key terms and concepts in the use of ICT. This includes such concepts as “armed attack”.
Western media have reported a big victory for American diplomacy . The Russian media look at events from the other side: “Russia stated the need to adopt standards of behavior of states in cyberspace back in 2011. At the same time, the Russian authorities tried not only to protect their resources from cyber threats in the narrow sense of the term (sabotage of software and hardware), but also to put a barrier on the way of using Internet technologies for military-political purposes (militarization of cyberspace, destabilization of ). Western countries (first of all, the United States) did not want to hear about any rules of behavior until recently. In the Russian initiatives, they saw only an attempt to establish greater control over the Internet and a desire to limit the cyber potential of other countries, ”Kommersant reports, citing a member of the UN government expert group, the special representative of the Russian president for international cooperation in information security, Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Krutskih (see interview ).
The report was submitted to the UN Secretary General for presentation at the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, which will be held in late September 2015. “But, since the norms recorded in the report were worked out by consensus within the framework of the UN mechanism, we can assume that they are already in the nature of existing UN recommendations,” Andrei Krutskikh explained.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/356832/
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