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education and research in cybersecurity. For example, in 2019, the Centre for Cyber
Security collaborated with the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology,
Aalborg University, the University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen Business
School, and the Technical University of Denmark to conduct the first-ever Cyber
Security Summer School.
In 2019, a public-private Cyber Security Council (Cybersikkerhedsråd) was
established to qualify the work of the national authorities and the private sector,
strengthen digital democracy and improve the knowledge of the threats and
opportunities brought about by digitization and new technologies.
With the Danish Cyber and Information Security Strategy 2018–2021, Denmark
has also strengthened its international cyberengagement by posting cyberattachés in
Brussels; appointing an international cybercoordinator in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs; appointing a cybersecurity adviser to the Office of Denmark’s Tech
Ambassador in Silicon Valley; and joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn. This has allowed
Denmark to step up its engagement in multinational cyberforums, such as the United
Nations, the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Denmark is also an active
member of the Network Information Security Cooperation Group and the computer
security incident response team network and is a member of the board of the European
Union Agency for Cybersecurity. Through its engagement in these forums, Denmark
has consistently promoted a global, open, stable, peaceful and secure cyberspace.
Moreover, Denmark played an active role in the development of the European
Union 5G toolbox. The toolbox seeks to identify a coordinated European approach to
5G based on a common set of measures, aimed at mitigating the main cybersecurity
risks of 5G networks.
Denmark stresses that, as the international community has made clear,
cyberspace is firmly rooted in existing international law, as the Groups of
Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and
Telecommunications in the Context of International Security have attested in their
2013 and 2015 consensus reports. Existing international law, including the Charter of
the United Nations in its entirety, international humanitarian law and international
human rights law, applies to States’ behaviour in cyberspace. Denmark furthermore
stresses the importance of the 11 voluntary non-binding norms for responsible State
behaviour articulated in the 2015 Group of Governmental Experts reports, as a
complement to binding international law.
Despite our joint efforts, the ability and willingness of State and non-State actors
to conduct malicious cyberactivities are still increasing. That should be of global
concern. Malicious activities in cyberspace may constitute wrongful acts under
international law, as well as being destabilizing and risking escalation. Denmark
remains determined to prevent, deter and respond to malicious activities and seek to
enhance international cooperation to this effect. Denmark joins the European Union
in calling on the international community to strengthen international cooperation in
favour of a global, open, stable, peaceful and secure cyberspace where human rights,
fundamental freedoms and the rule of law fully apply.
The content of the concepts mentioned in the reports of the Group of
Governmental Experts
Existing and emerging threats
As mentioned, Denmark recognizes that cyberspace holds tremendous
opportunities for increasing welfare, boosting sustainable economic growth and
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