Need for a treaty on cyberspace --- The application of existing international laws and norms to the cyberspace is securing a first layer of rules that is already internationally accepted. Building on that, I would say that a global treaty is needed to address the specificities of the cyberspace (attribution of an attack, global effect, cyber weapons using nations or individuals without their consent or knowledge, use of data, etc.).

Source author: Florence Tinguely Mattli florence.tinguely-mattli@eda.admin.ch