Day 1 Keynote: Diplomacy and Combating Evolving International Cyber Threats
summary
Argues that cyber is now a core national-security and foreign-policy issue, backed by concrete moves: creation of a State Department cyber office and roughly 25 similar offices worldwide, operational tools like a 24/7 network — 64 countries and a successful diplomatic de‑march to 20 countries that reduced a long‑running botnet; cites China agreements (five PLA indictments plus a pledge not to steal commercial IP) and examples—Sony, NotPetya, Ukrainian grid—while warning attribution, deterrence and limited tool sets remain unresolved.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Start
- 2:00Scholarship Program
- 10:51The Global Commission for the Stability of Cyberspace
- 18:17The First Denial of Service Attack Cases
- 21:04Hybrid Threats
- 21:25Policy Threats
- 30:06Diplomatic Tools To Go after Threats
- 31:56Range of Threat Actors
- 33:29Threat of Economic Sanctions
- 34:59Prevent Cyber Conflicts
- 35:30International Law Applies in Cyberspace
- 37:08Expectation of Cooperation
- 38:39Deterrence in Cyberspace
- 41:19Working with Other Countries
- 42:42The Proliferation Security Initiative
- 48:00Questions and Answers
- 56:59Confidence-Building Measures
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