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To effectively consider all relevant information, including the larger context of
the event etc., we recommend leveraging the resources, experience and expertise
from all relevant stakeholders – including from industry and civil society/academia.
This will enable states to develop the best possible big-picture understanding and
situational awareness.
Tech Accord
First of all, governments should adopt a comprehensive incident response plan
that prioritizes the mitigation of the incident. As part of the plan, relevant points of
contact within government and critical infrastructures should be identified, and
regular exercises should be conducted. Additional activities, such as e.g. staff
exchanges could also be considered, assuming the necessary baseline level of trust
has been built.
Secondly, governments should develop strategic and operational policies that
inform their responses to cyber incidents, e.g. through military doctrine referenced
above. Such transparency can increase predictability and promotes common
understanding.
Thirdly, initiatives, such as the EU Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox can help make clear
what are some of the responses that states can deploy as part of their response to
an incident.
In particular it is important that diplomatic, economic, legal, and military
options are all considered.
Fourthly, we welcome the fact that governments have begun sharing
information and are becoming increasingly aligned in terms of attributing particular
cyberattacks. We encourage governments to continue sharing the lessons learnt
around different incidents.
Finally, the Cybersecurity Tech Accord signatories encourage governments to
exchange information around particular cyberattacks with industry to ensure that
the knowledge and situation awareness around a particular incident is as complete
as possible.
(c) States should not
knowingly allow their
territory to be used for
internationally
wrongful acts using
ICTs
Australian
Strategic
Policy
Institute,
International
Cyber Policy
Centre
Global
Partners
Digital
Implementation of norms are demonstrated by states’ actions, capabilities, and
strategic policy direction. As this norm deals with a State’s means and methods to
prevent a its territory from being misused, examples of implementation include:
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States’ actions in combating common forms of cybercrime, such as phishing,
spoofing, DDoS attacks. Other examples include practices of rules-based DNS
filtering (for instance at ISP level) and seeking community reports (like
Indonesia’s patrolisiber.id).
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such as Interpol ASEAN desk’s operations with the Indonesian National Police.
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States’ ratification of the Budapest Convention or other international
conventions addressing cyber and ICT-related crimes
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States possessing operational cyber capacities in policing, law enforcement,
counterintelligence and cyber defence
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States’ criminalisation of wrongful acts, including computer misuse, through
specific cybercrime legislation, updated criminal codes, jurisprudence or police
operational policies.
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States’ approach to combating cybercrime and enhancing security of the
nation’s cyber ecosystem, like the UK’s Active Cyber Defence Program or
government (loose) partnerships with ISPs and security researchers.
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States declaring policy goals to combat transnational cybercrime, prevent
terrorist use of the Internet and other potential wrongful acts, for instance in a
national cybersecurity strategy or national cybercrime action plan.
This norm refers to the law of state responsibility and the principle of due
diligence, which—under international law—obliges a state to not knowingly allow its
territory to be used for acts contrary to the rights of other states. It can also be read
to refer to the principle under international human rights law that states must
protect against human rights abuses within their territory and/or jurisdiction by third
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