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A pragmatic perspective towards minimizing the civilian harm of offensive cyberspace operations
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:14:40
Publish Date: 2021-10-21 09:21:35
Description: Within a complex and growing threat landscape, the cyber arms race is ramping up, underscoring the need for reasonable and realistic constraints on the development and use of cyberweapons. To minimize the direct or indirect harm to civilians, cyber arms development should bolster technological development safety and cybersecurity measures, and offensive cyberspace operation execution should choose the most viable course of action to achieve the specified operational effect in line with the applicable law and rules of engagement. In this post, part of our special series on avoiding civilian harm during military cyber operations, Dr. Bernhards Blumbergs, Senior Researcher at CERT.LV (Information Technologies Security Incident Response Institution in Latvia) presents forward-looking considerations from the offensive cyberspace operation execution technical and operational perspective, based on the author’s practical experience.
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