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• Resources to support implementation. Implementation of the norms can and
should be an element of any national cybersecurity strategy. In 2019, only 40 per
cent of States had such a strategy. The United Kingdom continues to support a
range of States in building their national cybercapacity.
• Availability of best practice guidance on implementation. The United Kingdom
believes the report of the Group of Governmental Experts will provide a detailed
guide to the initial framework for responsible State behaviour in cyberspace that
many States have asked for. The non-paper and the complementary paper
referenced above also contribute to building best practice in this area.
Confidence-building measures
The United Kingdom considers that States should focus on operationalizing
existing confidence-building measures rather than developing new ones. Regional
organizations are important vehicles in the universalization and operationalization of
the recommendations of the previous Groups of Governmental Experts, alongside the
private sector, academia and civil society organizations. However, the
operationalization of confidence-building measures remains limited, leaving a major
gap in the potential efficacy of our framework.
The United Kingdom actively participates in the OSCE Informal Working
Group on Cyber Confidence-building Measures. We have adopted OSCE confidencebuilding measure 5 on capacity-building, undertaking to support its operationalization
among OSCE States. In 2019 we hosted a cyber scenario-based discussion to practise
implementation and understanding of the confidence-building measures among
40 member States. In 2020 and 2021, the United Kingdom has chaired the OSCE
Security Committee, using its role to host two cyber-focused events.
Capacity-building
The United Kingdom is a major bilateral cybercapacity-building donor. We
consider that the United Nations can use its convening power to raise the profile of
cybersecurity capacity-building and encourage coordinated good practice. In order to
maximize efficiency and effectiveness, it will be important to involve all stakeholders
and avoid the duplication of existing work. The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise is
already an effective coordination mechanism for capacity-building. Independent
capacity review tools, best practice guides and organizations, like the Forum of
Incident Response and Security Teams in the cybersecurity incident response team
community, are also important contributors to this objective.
During the period 2019–2021, the United Kingdom was a sponsor of the Women
in International Security and Cyberspace Fellowship. We are particularly proud to
have contributed to the increased participation of women in the Open -ended Working
Group through this programme.
Regular institutional dialogue
The United Kingdom is a sponsor of the proposal for a programme of action to
facilitate inclusive regular institutional dialogue on responsible State behaviour in
cyberspace at the United Nations. We support further work to elaborate and establish
this proposal.
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