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The Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, part of the Atlantic Council Technology Programs, works at the nexus of geopolitics and cybersecurity to craft strategies to help shape the conduct of statecraft and to better inform and secure users of technology.

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May 24, 2013

EDA Study Discovers Weaknesses in Europe’s Military Cyber Defenses

By European Defense Agency

From European Defense Agency:  The European Defence Agency (EDA) presented on 24 May 2013 results of its stocktaking study of military cyber defence capabilities.

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May 24, 2013

German Armed Forces Equipping for Cyber War

By Michael Fischer, DPA

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May 23, 2013

NATO Faces About Ten Serious Cyber Incidents Each Month

By Paul Ames, Global Post

From Paul Ames, Global Post:  The Boolea attack is fiction, the center-piece of operation Locked Shields, a "live fire" cyber exercise run by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in late April, to test the rapid response capabilities of allied cyber units.

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May 22, 2013

15th Anniversary of PDD-63: History of Cyber Critical Infrastructure Protection

On May 22, 2013, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative held a discussion on the history of cyber critical infrastructure protection in recognition of the 15th anniversary of Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PDD-63).

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May 22, 2013

NSA Deputy Warns Against Cyber Vigilantes

By Colin Clark, Breaking Defense

From Colin Clark, Breaking Defense:  The private sector — and the government — must “exhaust” the use of traditional responses such as public shaming, criminal charges, diplomatic demarches, and sanctions “before we contemplate the dangerous possibility we might encourage vigilantism

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May 22, 2013

Report Recommends US Permit Private Counterattacks Against International Hackers

By David E. Sanger, New York Times

From David E. Sanger, New York Times:  With President Obama preparing for a first meeting with China’s new president, a commission led by two former senior officials in his administration will recommend a series of steps that could significantly raise the cost to China of the theft of American industrial secrets.

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May 22, 2013

NATO’s New Relevance as a Cyber Alliance

By Siobhan MacDermott, AVG

From Siobhan MacDermott, AVG:  NATO is a creature of crisis, having come into being early in the Cold War as an intergovernmental alliance between the United States and the European democracies for collective defense against attack

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May 21, 2013

Digital Warfare: North Korean Cyber-Rattling

By Economist

From Economist:  Earlier this month the Department of Defence delivered a report to Congress accusing the hermit kingdom’s expanding army of “cyber-warriors” of using foreign infrastructure, such as broadband networks, to launch cyber-attacks on American allies, most notably South Korea. Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s fresh-faced dictator, is said to have 4,000 loyal cyber-warriors at […]

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May 20, 2013

EU Invites NATO to Boost Cyber Cooperation

By NATO Parliamentary Assembly

From NATO Parliamentary Assembly:  The European Union’s top justice official invited NATO on Saturday to work more closely with the EU to combat cyber-crime and create a safe Internet environment where citizen’s rights and personal data are protected.

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May 20, 2013

The Unique Characteristics of Cyber Weapons

By Panayotis A. Yannakogeorgos, National Interest

From Panayotis A. Yannakogeorgos, National Interest:  Cyber events breaching the threshold of armed attack require the use of cyberweapons. These differ substantially from other malicious code.

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