Cyber Security

China’s Technological Rise: Implications for Global Security and the Case of Nuctech

China under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is poised to become the world’s first technology enabled totalitarian superpower. No country will be untouched by this development, including Estonia, where a Chinese state-owned technology company Nuctech specialising in “security solutions” monitors cargo crossing the NATO border with Russia using a radiation-based technology originally copied from Europe.

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Publications

The Bronze Soldier Crisis of 2007: Revisiting an Early Case of Hybrid Conflict

This report revisits the spring 2007 crisis in Estonia, centred on the World War II memorial known as the Bronze Soldier statue. The crisis is well-known both in Estonia and abroad. It was one of the first wake-up calls to the cooling of relations between Russia and the West. It also involved the first use of wide-ranging cyber-attacks against a state.

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Publications

Between the Chinese Dragon and American Eagle: 5G Development in the Baltic States

In the course of 2018-20, development of Fifth Generation (5G) communication networks has been increasingly influenced by the considerations of national security and geopolitics.

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Publications

China’s Sovereignty and Internet Governance

Increasingly, China’s expanding role in the evolution and development of both the global economy and digital technologies must be acknowledged.

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Events

Teperik: Time to Build Electoral Resilience in Ukraine

ICDS Chief Executive and Programme Director “Resilient Ukraine” Dmitri Teperik participated in the international roundtable entitled “Russia’s interference in electoral processes: threat and response”, organized by the Committee of Voters of Ukraine in Kyiv on 17 February 2020.

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Events

ICDS Roundtable on National Resilience in Ukraine

Ukrinform and ICDS organised a public roundtable discussion entitled “National Resilience: New Approaches to Solving Old Problems” on 12 December 2019 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Paper issue

How to Tame the Dragon?

5G Technology is not like its predecessors and caution is needed in proceeding.

Events

Presentations of KAPO and RIA Annual Reviews at ICDS

In May, we continued discussions with the Estonian security authorities on their annual reviews.

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News

Dmitri Teperik: “Situational Awareness is an Essential Part of National Resilience”

“Resilient Ukraine” team continues conducting in-depth field research in south-eastern Ukraine. The second stage of practical research took place during 20-25 May 2019 and was aimed at analysing vulnerabilities in communication, information and cyber security at the regional level in Ukraine.

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Blog

How Estonia uses Cybersecurity to Strengthen its Position in NATO

Small states, especially those in close proximity to potentially threatening regional powers, tend to seek reassurance in collective arrangements often in the form of security agreements.

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