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Within the Group of Seven, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC) and OAS, Canada is also participating in initiatives to combat
cybercrime. It is a member of the Global Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse
Online and participated in the 2012-2013 Group of Governmental Experts.
Canada recommends that all Member States wishing to enhance cybersecurity
and prevent cybercrime refer to the Convention on Cybercrime of the Council of
Europe.
Canada believes that addressing the security of information and
communication technologies must go hand in hand with respect for human rights
and fundamental freedoms. The same rights that people have offline must also be
protected online, including freedom of expression, association and assembly and
respect for privacy.
The full text of the submission by Canada can be found at http://www.un.org/
disarmament/topics/informationsecurity/.
France
[Original: French]
[15 September 2014]
France wishes first to reiterate that it does not use the term “information
security”, preferring the terms “information systems security” or “cybersecurity”.
As an active proponent of freedom of expression online (see Human Rights Council
resolution 20/8, adopted in 2012), France does not consider information as such to
be a potential source of vulnerability requiring protection, except under conditions
strictly established by law, in a proportionate and transparent way, in accordance
with article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The functioning of our society is increasingly dependent upon information
systems and networks, including the Internet. A successful attack on a critical
information system could therefore have serious consequences, both human and
economic. For this reason, in 2011 France drew up an information systems defence
and security strategy, thereby making cybersecurity a genuine national priority. The
2013 Defence and National Security White Paper has sharpened the national
perception of the threat by identifying two significant dangers to the nation:
cyberespionage and cybersabotage of critical infrastructure.
Established in 2009 to address these challenges, the French Network and
Information Security Agency has seen its resources and powers continuously
strengthened since then. It is now responsible, on behalf of the Prime Minister, for
all prevention and response functions relating to the cybersecurity of France’s
critical infrastructure, including government infrastructure. The Ministry of
Defence, which is responsible for its own network security, has also gained
momentum in this area, as indicated by the release in February 2014 of an ambitious
strategy paper, the Cyber-Defence Pact.
At the same time, France has been actively engaged in strengthening
international cybersecurity cooperation, the absence of which would limit national
efforts. France has had a special interest, since the 2011 Group of Eight meeting in
Deauville, in strengthening the international regulation of cyberspace. To that end,
the country now participates actively in the work of the United Nations Group of
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