Shifting paradigms in Europe's approach to cyber defence: Ambitions to disrupt malicious cyber activity need to protect norms as well as networks

Annegret Bendiek and Jakob Bund

No 48/2023, SWP Comments from Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Abstract: As high-level European Union (EU) policy documents call for investment in active cyber defence capabilities, the legal and political powers for their use remain ill-defined. To demonstrate their commitment to principles of responsible state behaviour and due diligence, the EU and its member states have a duty to establish the normative foun­dations for the use of active cyber defence measures ahead of their deployment, while carefully managing the risk of a gradual militarisation of the cyber and information domain.

Keywords: cyber defence; cyberattacks; cyber power; ransomware; hackback; Due Diligence; Botnets; Defend Forward; US Cyber Command; Paul Nakasone; Hunt Forward Operation (HFO); EU Cyber Rapid Response Teams; CRRT; EUCDCC; Sovereign Cyber Effects Provided Voluntarily by Allies; SCEPVA; Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO); European Union (EU) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.18449/2023C48

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