Unilateral Remedies To Cyber Operations

A study of how states can lawfully react to malicious cyber conduct, taking into account the problem of timely attribution.

"With the frequency of widely reported malicious cyber operations carried out by states steadily increasing, more and more policymakers and scholars have started deliberating how states should be allowed to, respond when their critical infrastructures or other legally protected interests fall victim to a significant cybersecurity incident triggered by an adversarial actor's conduct. Focusing on 'active cyber defences' such as 'hacking back' and other unilateral remedies, ranging from publicly calling out another state for having engaged in malicious cyber conduct to imposing sanctions, the book closely examines three unilateral remedies found in customary international law that a targeted state may invoke in order to justify its response: self-defence, countermeasures, and necessity. Taking into account the pervasive problem of attributing cyber operations to the responsible actor in a reliable and above all timely manner, the study seeks to unfold the principal legal challenges that states face when applying rules of current international law to questions of transnational cybersecurity. The book concludes with some principled suggestions for future norm development for cyberspace"--

Rethinking Cyber Warfare provides a fresh understanding of the role that digital disruption plays in contemporary international security and proposes a new approach to more effectively restrain and manage cyberattacks.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the international law applicable to cyber operations. It is grounded in international law, but is also of interest for non-legal researchers, notably in political science and computer science. Outside academia, it will appeal to legal advisors, policymakers, and military organisations.

Cyberspace has become a critical part of our lives and as a result is an important academic research topic. It is a multifaceted and dynamic domain that is largely driven by the business-civilian sector, with influential impacts on national security. This book presents current and diverse matters related to regulation and jurisdictive activity within the cybersecurity context. Each section includes a collection of scholarly articles providing an analysis of questions, research directions, and methods within the field.The interdisciplinary book is an authoritative and comprehensive reference to the overall discipline of cybersecurity. The coverage of the book will reflect the most advanced discourse on related issues.

The international dispute settlement system is currently facing many challenges regarding the authority, effectiveness, and legitimacy of its methods and mechanisms and their coordination. These challenges cut across different fields of international law and relations such as investment, trade, human rights, water resources, the law of the sea, the environment, international peace and security, disaster law, space, and cyberspace. New technologies also impact on the scope of existing disputes and their settlement, which lead to the emergence of new disputes and ways of settling them. This book offers insightful reflections by academics and practitioners on such challenges and how they can be addressed as well as on how the international dispute settlement system should adapt to attain its aim of maintaining peace and international legality. It deals with many contemporary issues and is wide-ranging in scope. It is suitable for students, scholars, and practitioners of international dispute settlement, international law, and international relations.

This book offers a critical analysis of cybersecurity from a legal-international point of view. Assessing the need to regulate cyberspace has triggered the re-emergence of new primary norms. This book evaluates the ability of existing international law to address the threat and use of force in cyberspace, redefining cyberwar and cyberpeace for the era of the Internet of Things. Covering critical issues such as the growing scourge of economic cyberespionage, international co-operation to fight cybercrime, the use of foreign policy instruments in cyber diplomacy, it also looks at state backed malicious cyberoperations, and the protection of human rights against State security activities. Offering a holistic examination of the ability of public international law, the book addresses the most pressing issues in global cybersecurity. Reflecting on the reforms necessary from international institutions, like the United Nations, the European Union, the Council of Europe, and NATO, in order to provide new answers to the critical issues in global cybersecurity and international law, this book will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners.