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  • Workshop on Promises and Pitfalls of a Global Cybercrime Convention

    Workshop on Promises and Pitfalls of a Global Cybercrime Convention

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    The harmful effects of cross-border criminal cyber-attacks were made abundantly clear as hospitals, energy providers, and other infrastructure services were indiscriminately hit or even directly targeted last year. Meanwhile, UN member states embarked on a new negotiation process with the goal of creating a global convention against the criminal misuse of information and communication technology.…

  • Workshop on the Cybersecurity Chapter of the German National Security Strategy

    Workshop on the Cybersecurity Chapter of the German National Security Strategy

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    End of June 2022 the ICS team conducted a workshop in cooperation with the Federal Foreign Office on cyber security within the framework of the dialogue processes on the German National Security Strategy. The hybrid event centred on four thematic blocks, each introduced by short keynote speeches followed by discussions, and was held under Chatham…

  • The Role of Cyber Operations in War – Part III: Cyber Operations and the Loss of Escalation Control

    The Role of Cyber Operations in War – Part III: Cyber Operations and the Loss of Escalation Control

    Mischa Hansel 21 June 2022 Other conflicts may not play-out as the Ukraine war has thus far in cyberspace. Attackers might be better prepared and more ready to use offensive cyber capacities, defenders on the other hand might well have less experience and fewer international allies. In this third part, I want to focus on…

  • The Role of Cyber Operations in War – Part II: (Cyber) History Does Not Repeat Itself

    The Role of Cyber Operations in War – Part II: (Cyber) History Does Not Repeat Itself

    Mischa Hansel 14 June 2022 Describing and understanding the puzzle are of course two different things, let alone deriving policy conclusions. In the second part of this post, I will argue that special, although not necessarily unique, strategic circumstances have contributed to the absence of more serious cyberattacks, particularly against critical infrastructures in the context…

  • The Role of Cyber Operations in War – Part I:What (Not) to Learn from the Ukrainian Case

    The Role of Cyber Operations in War – Part I:What (Not) to Learn from the Ukrainian Case

    Mischa Hansel 25 May 2022 In the three months since the initial Russian invasion of Ukraine, numerous articles on the military and strategic significance of cyber operations have been published. Most – but not all – assume we are faced with major puzzle: how come there have not been any large-scale disruptive cyberattacks against critical infrastructures in Ukraine and…

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