From Articulation to Implementation: Enabling Progress on Cybersecurity Norms
Digital Geneva Convention | Whitepaper
The global dialogue on cybersecurity norms is evolving from a conceptual discussion about nation-states’ rights and responsibilities, toward an articulation of norms of state and industry behavior. These proposals vary in their prescriptions and subject areas.
From Articulation to Implementation: Enabling Progress on Cybersecurity Norms
In this Whitepaper, Microsoft examines the current discussions and:
- Puts forward an organizing model for developing cybersecurity norms, built around three categories of proposed norms: offensive norms, defensive norms, and industry norms.
- Outlines the key elements necessary for further refinement of these proposals, using our four-part framework of actors, objectives, actions, and impacts.
- Turns to the problem of implementation of cybersecurity norms, outlining proposals on how to verify compliance with agreed-upon norms and finding new ways to deal with the challenges related to attribution.
