Cyber Cease-Fire: US v. China

As published on Norse on October 6th, 2015 Interesting times indeed, now that the outcome of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s two-day visit to the White House last week has been made public. According to the White House press release, this is what was agreed: The United States and China agree…

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Missing in Action: Cyber Dictionary?

As published on Norse on September 22nd, 2015. I recently stumbled over an old issue that has shown no signs of being resolved: the lack of a normalized lexicon on Cyber Security. We can’t seem to start agreeing on terminology, even though the cyber security industry is rapidly professionalizing globally…

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The Right to Strike Back

As published on Norse on June 26, 2015. Last week, at the HiP Conference in Paris, there was a debate on whether or not it should be allowed to strike back when you are being hacked. Currently, criminal law in most countries does not allow it. But is this tenable in today’s’…

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Enterprise Security vs. Nation State Threat Actors

The recently published Snowden/NSA/GCHQ slides regarding the Gemalto hack have caused quite a stir amongst security practitioners, board members and politicians alike. But the uproar is minor when considering that it is now more than clear that not only non-allied nations such as China, Russia and Iran are attacking commercial…

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GCCS2015 Part II: Government Influence is the Key Issue

(As published on Norse: Feb 5th, 2015) As we noted in Part I: GCCS2015: Battlefield for the Internets’ Multi-stakeholder Coup, the next iteration of the Global Conference on CyberSpace (GCCS2015) will be held on April 16th and 17th in The Hague, the Netherlands this year. It is the worlds’ premier political conference on Cyberspace. The…

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