Closing the Global Cyber Enforcement Gap

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https://www.lawfareblog.com/closing-global-cyber-enforcement-gap

By Allison Peters
Lawfare
December 18, 2018

Last month, more than 50 countries and over 200 major corporations and 
organizations came together to agree that the international nature of 
cyber threats needs a cooperative global response and a common set of 
principles as a basis for security. This conclusion seems obvious—millions 
of people have been affected by malicious activity perpetrated through the 
internet—and yet consensus has proved difficult to obtain until now.

This declaration, known as the “Paris Call For Trust and Stability in 
Cyberspace,” is an important step in defining common principles to secure 
cyberspace. But the global norms it attempts to establish will only be as 
good as their enforcement. As the supporters of this declaration move 
forward in thinking through what comes next to enforce these principles, 
they must now consider one important question: What can be done to find 
those who violate these norms and bring them to justice? The Paris Call 
reflects growing consensus among governments and industry of the rules of 
the road for their operation in cyberspace. Its commitments include: 
working to prevent activity that intentionally and considerably damages 
the general availability or integrity of the “public core” of the 
Internet; strengthening capacity to prevent malign foreign influence 
operations, such as those conducted by Russia to interfere in the 2016 
U.S. presidential election; and preventing and recovering from malicious 
cyber activity that threatens or harms people and certain critical 
infrastructure. These commitments reflect much of the consensus already 
built on behavior in cyberspace by groups including the United Nations 
Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information 
and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security and the 
Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.

Importantly, the Paris Call gives formal recognition to something many in 
the international community have long known: Countries around the globe 
are drowning in a massive, borderless cybercrime wave. From a brazen 
cyberattack that paralyzed the U.S. city of Atlanta in March 2018 to hacks 
on ATMs that have stolen millions from banks in Asia and Africa, 
cybercrime has targeted every sector of global economies. This includes 
crimes directly sponsored by nation states like North Korea and Russia. 
McAfee estimates the global cost of cybercrime now to be as much as $600 
billion, about 0.8 percent of global gross domestic product.

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