[ISN] World leaders meet to discuss cyberwar rules of engagement

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/04/cyberwar_rules_of_engagement/

By John Leyden
The Register
4th February 2011 

Rules of engagement for the deployment of cyber-weapons need to be 
developed, an international security conference is due to be told later 
today.

The influential EastWest Institute is due to present proposals for the 
cyberspace equivalent of the Geneva convention at the Munich Security 
Conference, which has included a debate on cyber-security on its agenda 
for the first time this year. Delegates to the conference include UK 
Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, US 
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei 
Lavrov.

The discussion on rules for cyber-conflict follows months after the 
infamous Stuxnet worm was blamed for infecting industrial control 
systems and sabotaging centrifuges at controversial Iranian nuclear 
facilities. Some have described the malware as the world's first 
cyber-weapon though cyber-espionage in many guises has undoubtedly been 
practiced by intelligence agencies across the world for many years.

Computer systems underpin the delivery of essential services, including 
utilities and telecoms and well as banking and government services. 
Critical national infrastructure systems are most commonly privately 
held, at least in the US and Europe. Although attacks against various 
critical systems are commonplace they tend to be low level 
information-stealing or denial of service exploits. Many independent 
experts in cyber-security dismiss talk of cyberwar as hype – driven more 
by the marketing departments of US security contractor giants seeking a 
new market in cyberspace than by reality on the ground.

[...]


___________________________________________________________      
Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended
Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management,
Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery 
Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. 
Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure.
http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/