TY - GEN

T1 - Cybersecurity in NATO and CSTO

T2 - 17th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ECCWS 2018

AU - Elamiryan, Ruben

AU - Bolgov, Radomir

PY - 2018/1/1

Y1 - 2018/1/1

N2 - The paper compares cybersecurity policies of two international organizations, NATO and Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). The countries of these organizations have a common cultural, historical and, partially, language basis. Given the principles of collective defense and collective security, both organizations strive to protect and integrate their "own" traditionally historical space. Both organizations move through the military cooperation to create a political union. Both organizations have a leader country. As cases for comparison, we choose organizations consisting of countries with completely different political regimes and, accordingly, different approaches to cybersecurity. In accordance with the Index of Democracy, most of the CSTO countries are states with a transitional regime, while NATO countries belong to democracies or countries with imperfect democracy. The countries have very specific legislation regulating the cyberspace. We use two levels (legal and practical) to analyze cyber strategies, institutions and experience (policies) of two organizations. We analyze the priorities mentioned in cyber strategies as well as terms, goals, and bodies in charge. First of all, we provide deep and comprehensive literature review on cybersecurity. The latter is performed on the following aspects of international cybersecurity: Theoretical, legal, activities of international organizations, as well as NATO and CSTO positions on these issues. At the same time the study would be incomplete without understanding of implementation of the cybersecurity strategies. One of the ways to evaluate cyberpolicy effectiveness is based on comparison of countries’ positions in global rankings (e.g. ITU Global Cybersecurity Index). In addition the research considers official statistics data, experts’ surveys, public opinion polls and media publications.

AB - The paper compares cybersecurity policies of two international organizations, NATO and Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). The countries of these organizations have a common cultural, historical and, partially, language basis. Given the principles of collective defense and collective security, both organizations strive to protect and integrate their "own" traditionally historical space. Both organizations move through the military cooperation to create a political union. Both organizations have a leader country. As cases for comparison, we choose organizations consisting of countries with completely different political regimes and, accordingly, different approaches to cybersecurity. In accordance with the Index of Democracy, most of the CSTO countries are states with a transitional regime, while NATO countries belong to democracies or countries with imperfect democracy. The countries have very specific legislation regulating the cyberspace. We use two levels (legal and practical) to analyze cyber strategies, institutions and experience (policies) of two organizations. We analyze the priorities mentioned in cyber strategies as well as terms, goals, and bodies in charge. First of all, we provide deep and comprehensive literature review on cybersecurity. The latter is performed on the following aspects of international cybersecurity: Theoretical, legal, activities of international organizations, as well as NATO and CSTO positions on these issues. At the same time the study would be incomplete without understanding of implementation of the cybersecurity strategies. One of the ways to evaluate cyberpolicy effectiveness is based on comparison of countries’ positions in global rankings (e.g. ITU Global Cybersecurity Index). In addition the research considers official statistics data, experts’ surveys, public opinion polls and media publications.

KW - CSTO

KW - Cyber policy

KW - Cyber strategy

KW - Cyber threat

KW - Cybersecurity

KW - Cyberwar

KW - NATO

KW - Revolution in military affairs

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050795144&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85050795144

VL - 2018-June

SP - 146

EP - 155

BT - Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ECCWS 2018

A2 - Josang, Audun

PB - Curran Associates, Inc.

Y2 - 28 June 2018 through 29 June 2018

ER -