News - Newsletter Défense-Sécurité & Parlement

Nouveau numéro de la newsletter "Défense-Sécurité & Parlement", février 2013, dédiée à la cyberdéfense. Dossier "Cyberdéfense: un enjeu mondial, une priorité nationale". Contributions de J.M. Bockel, E. Rihan Cipel, A. Coustilliere, J. Hebrard, J. Ferry, P. Pailloux, M. Quemener, Y. Jounot, O. Bohbot, J.M. Orozco, V. Maldonado, D. Ventre.

Report - Finland's Cyber Security Strategy 2013

Finland's Cyber Security Strategy 2013. Government Resolution 24.1.2013. 16 pages.

Reports - Australia's national security 2013

Report. First Australia's National Security report. January 2013. The document identifies the key national security risks and introduces cybersecurity issues:

• Espionage and foreign interference

• Instability in developing and fragile states

• Malicious cyber activity

• Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

• Serious and organised crime

• State-based conflict or coercion significantly affecting Australia’s interests

• Terrorism and violent extremism

Reports - Cybersecurity Strategy of the E.U

Report. Cybersecurity Strategy of the European Union. European Commission, 7.2.2013, 20 pages

News - Rapport de la NIE: la France (aussi) mènerait des cyberattaques contre les USA...

Un article d'Ellen Nakashima publié dans le Washington Post du 11 février 2013, revient sur un rapport de la NIE (National Intelligence Estimates) en date de quelques jours, lequel pointe une nouvelle fois du doigt les cyberopérations d'espionnage menées par la Chine massivement, mais également par d'autres acteurs comme la Russie, Israël... et la France.

Même si, comme le rapporte Ellen Nakashima, le volume d'opérations menées depuis ces 3 pays fait pâle figure par rapport à la Chine, mention de la France dans la liste des accusés peut être vue comme une forme de réponse du berger à la bergère. En effet, rappelons-nous qu'en novembre dernier, la presse française accusait les américains d'avoir piraté l'Elysée.

News - Crisis and Escalation in Cyberwar

New book from Martin Libicki, Crisis and Escalation in Cyberwar, RAND Corportation, 198 pages, 2012. Download : http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2012/RAND_MG1215.pdf  This book is based ont he results of a research funded by the 2011 RAND Project Air Force study on "US and Threat Non-Kinetic Capabilities".

"The basic message is simple: Crisis and escalation in cyberspace can be managed as long as policymakers understand the key differences between nonkinetic conflict in cyberspace and kinetic conflict in the physical world. Among these differences are the tremendous scope that cyberdefense affords; the near impossibility and thus the pointlessness of trying to disarm an adversary’s ability to carry out cyberwar; and the great ambiguity associated with cyberoperations—notably, the broad disjunction between the attacker’s intent, the actual effect, and the target’s perception of what happened. Thus, strategies should concentrate on (1) recognizing that crisis instability in cyberspace arises largely from misperception, (2) promulgating norms that might modulate crisis reactions, (3) knowing when and how to defuse inadvertent crises stemming from incidents, (4) supporting actions with narrative rather than signaling, (5) bolstering defenses to the point at which potential adversaries no longer believe that cyberattacks (penetrating and disrupting or corrupting information systems, as opposed to cyberespionage) can alter the balance of forces, and (6) calibrating the use of offensive cyberoperations with an assessment of their escalation potential." (p.iii)

The book is structured around 5 chapters:

- Chapter 1: Introduction

- Chapter 2: Avoiding crisis by creating norms

- Chapter 3: Narratives, Dialogues and Signals

- Chapter 4: Escalation Management

- Chapter 5: Implications for Strategic Stability

Keywords: cyberspace, state, attack, cyberattack, escalation, systems...

Conference - CyCon2013

Conference CyCon 2013, International Conference on Cyber Conflict, June 4-7, 2013, Tallinn, Estonia, http://ccdcoe.org/cycon/   CyCon 2013 will focus on the technical, strategic and legal implications of using automatic methods to manage cyber conflicts. The conference will be organized along two tracks: a Strategic Track and a Technical Track. Legal aspects will be incorporated in these two tracks