14 December 2022 — what could have been just another busy day for the EU cybersecurity community — became a landmark moment as the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union agreed to strengthen Europe’s cyber resilience with the new NIS2 Directive.
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Since 24 February 2022, Russia has waged a full-scale war against Ukraine. Moscow adjusted its repertoire of actions, targeting the west through malign activities and interference aiming to undermine support for Kyiv.
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Reshaped by the new great power competition, the international order has been undergoing revolutionary transformations. Revanchist Russia has unleashed a barbarian war against a sovereign European nation, while increasingly militarised and contentious China looms as a not-so-insidious threat in the Indo-Pacific. In response to these shifting dynamics and mounting geopolitical tensions, Europe is now awakening to the new reality and paying greater attention to the far-away region.
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When Russian tanks rolled across the Ukrainian border on 24 February and reports surfaced of a parallel attack against the satellite provider Viasat, an ominous signal was given that the war had also escalated in cyberspace.
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Cyber conscription is quite a new phenomenon and there is no common definition of the term. Cyber conscripts may carry out a range of functions including technical cybersecurity and cyber defence, as well as IT support, programming and development. They may also serve in more traditional branches such as communications/signals, intelligence, and even social media.
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Despite the geographical distance between them, Estonia and Japan share many similar security challenges, such as potential destabilisation in cyberspace due to geopolitical tensions and conflicts, the vulnerability of national digital infrastructure, and the impact of cyber-attacks on trust in open, democratic societies. Tackling such challenges requires close international cooperation and the exchange of national best practices and experiences.
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Although the Allies are frequently under cyber-attacks, none of them have caused so serious damage for NATO to invoke Article 5. Triggering Article 5 depends on the consequences of the cyber-attack by a nation state, told Director of the International Centre for Defence Studies Sven Sakkov to the Norwegian outlet Folk og Forsvar.
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To fight a cyber-attack or cyber terrorist you must have John McClane in the ‘Live Free or Die Hard’ movie at hand. Luckily this is not the case in real life.
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On 23-27 October ICDS Research Fellow Piret Pernik participated at the 6th meeting of NATO Science and Technology Organization working group SAS 116 “Military Strategic Level Decision Making within a (future) Framework of Cyber Resilience” that took place in Brussels.
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ICDS research fellows Piret Pernik, Henrik Praks and Tomas Jermalavičius contributed to The Rīga Conference Papers 2017. Security in the Baltic Sea Region: Realities and Prospects.
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