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The advance of information technology is making the complexity of cybersecurity even harder and more expensive to navigate for governments in the years to come.
What’s needed is some shape and form in the growing spaghetti junction of relationships and vulnerabilities between states, businesses, organisations and alliances.
Kenneth Geers, longtime cyber strategist, has laid out a plan for a cybersecurity alliance among two large groupings of states and partners -the EU and NATO. It’s been published by The Atlantic Council.
Both groupings, the EU and NATO, already have a world-leading track record in cybersecurity derived not just from individual states, but from collaborating bodies and working groups that involve practical cooperation in the area.
Here are four recommendations by Geers designed to encourage collaboration among EU and NATO member states:
Geers is articulating an idea that has long been championed by former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who has advocated a cyber alliance of like-minded democracies.
Ilves was in office as president when Russia conducted a series of cyber attacks aimed at punishing the Baltic nation in 2007.
Separately, joint attributions are becoming more common, as we recently saw when the UK, US, Australia and Canada blamed Russian hackers for attempting to steal coronavirus research.