New Cyber Chief Outlines Strategy
Deibert says one major question now is how to preserve privacy amid such efforts. “The key questions, as always, will concern the substance of those negotiations: will we see a charter for global cyberspace that protects and preserves this domain as an open, global commons of information? Or will we see the further imposition of digital controls, nationalized communications spaces, and widespread surveillance?”
Read the full article here.
Toward a Cyber Security Strategy (Vanguard)
Ron Deibert, “Toward a Cyber Security Strategy,” Vanguard (March/April 2010), pp.10-11.
Risking Security: Policies and Paradoxes of Cyberspace Security
Ronald Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski, “Risking Security: Policies and Paradoxes of Cyberspace Security,” in International Political Sociology, Volume 4 Issue 1, Pages 15 – 32.
Conceptualizations of cyberspace security can be divided into two related dimensions, articulated as “risks”: risks to the physical realm of computer and communication technologies (risks to cyberspace); and risks that arise [...]
Google gripe shows Ottawa’s cybersecurity ‘vacuum’
Published in CTV News
“The Google attacks were taken extremely seriously — more than just an incident of potential industrial espionage but a major body blow to the American political system,” said Ronald Deibert, a cybersecurity expert at the University of Toronto..
China’s Cyberspace Control Strategy: An Overview and Consideration of Issues for Canadian Policy
Published in Canadian International Council
by Ron Deibert
Canada should lead global effort to counter Internet censorship and cyber-espionage in China and elsewhere, new CIC paper argues.
The New, New Internet Interview
I recently did an interview with a Cyber Security news publication, curiously called “The New, New Internet.” You can read the full interview here.
Response to Obama’s Cybersecurity Plan on NY Times
President Obama announced the US Cybersecurity strategy yesterday, after a lengthy review. The report can be found here. I was asked, along with Bruce Shneier, James Bamford, Gus Hosein, Mykko Hoppenin, and Marjorie Blumenthal, to give feedback for the New York Times forum.