Global Cyberspace Cooperation Summit Approves Set of Cybersecurity Principles
Global Cyberspace Cooperation Summit participants voted last week to adopt a set of cybersecurity principles that include “fact-driven, risk-informed, and transparent requirements to help information technology buyers acquire more secure products from global sources,” the EastWest Institute said Tuesday. The…
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group hosted the summit that ended Thursday. The summit also adopted “rules of the road for the use of cyber weapons” and “streamlined procedures for fighting international cybercrime and protecting critical infrastructure,” EastWest said. The adopted cybersecurity principles build on reports from Huawei and Microsoft, EastWest said. “The world needs a way to better manage cybersecurity risks,” Microsoft Corporate Vice President-Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney said in an EastWest news release. “The answer lies in globally accepted cybersecurity norms of behavior for states, vendor transparency, and increased user control.” The private sector must act to address cybersecurity challenges, which “keep getting bigger as the rate of change accelerates,” CenturyLink Board Chairman William Owens said in the news release. “We can’t wait for governments to act.”