Terminology --- is important for international cooperation in cybersecurity as well, Phannarith. The exact scope of cybersecurity has been discussed in great detail and over a long time within the Governmental Group of Experts of the UNGA's First Committee. As you may have noted from the Reports of the GGE, it is for each member-state to volunteer what is Critical Infrastructure. That already opens up potential divergences for coordinated action to be taken to secure any vulnerability in Critical Infrastructure. In this HT chat, Bentom and Juan Feliciano have offered some discussion on how to apply the terminology. What would you think, if the objective is effective international cooperation for cybersecurity? Should there be an internatioally agreed (i.e. between states in the form of a legal document that is enforceable) terminology for cybersecurity?

Source author: Asoke Mukerji asokem@diplomacy.edu