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Mind The Gap: Explaining Problems With International Law Where Cybersecurity And Critical Infrastructure Protection Meet, David P. Fidler Jul 2013

Mind The Gap: Explaining Problems With International Law Where Cybersecurity And Critical Infrastructure Protection Meet, David P. Fidler

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Nato, Cyber Defense, And International Law, David P. Fidler, Richard Pregent, Alex Vandurme Jan 2013

Nato, Cyber Defense, And International Law, David P. Fidler, Richard Pregent, Alex Vandurme

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Cybersecurity threats pose challenges to individuals, corporations, states, and intergovernmental organizations. The emergence of these threats also presents international cooperation on security with difficult tasks. This essay analyzes how cybersecurity threats affect the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which is arguably the most important collective defense alliance in the world.1 NATO has responded to the cyber threat in policy and operational terms (Part I), but approaches and shifts in cybersecurity policies create problems for NATO— problems that NATO principles, practices, and politics exacerbate in ways that will force NATO to address cyber threats more aggressively than it has done so …