President Kaljulaid at CyCon 2019: Cyber attacks should not be easy weapon | News | ERR
11/10/2022, 14:25
During the 70-year history of NATO, no ally has
actually been conventionally attacked or lost its
sovereignty. This is because NATO's collective
defense posture – at least in the conventional
domain – has been and will remain to be a
credible deterrent.
Still nobody dares to cross NATO, as the
consequences would be known, clear and
devastating.
If we think of some of the basic tenets of the
international law system, then yes, international
law and organizations have not been able to
end all wars and aggression, but everybody
clearly knows that when you breach international
law then it will be taken up for sure in the UN
Security Council. And this always has
consequences, and therefore also acts as a
deterrent.
For some reason, the same principles remain
ambiguous in cyber domain, to say the least,
although they shouldn't. Today it is still possible
for an adversarial country to carry out a malicious
cyber operation, or a number of them
simultaneously, and get away with it.
Or almost get away with it, since at least on
attribution, a lot of progress has been achieved
over the last years. But one of the reasons for
this is that cyber still leaves a lot of gray areas,
including on how precisely international law
applies in the cyber sphere. International law
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