[ISN] US-Russian dictionary defines cyber war, other concepts

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:13:51 -0500 (CDT)
http://gcn.com/articles/2011/04/28/us-russia-cyber-dictionary.aspx

By William Jackson
GCN.com
April 28, 2011

It is all very well to talk about cyberspace and cybersecurity, but what 
do they mean, exactly?

A U.S.-Russian effort is proposing common definitions. The EastWest 
Institute and the Information Security Institute of Moscow State 
University have released a report with definitions for 20 key 
cybersecurity concepts, the beginning of what the groups hope will be a 
comprehensive international cyber taxonomy.

According to the taxonomy, released April 27, cyberspace is “an 
electronic medium through which information is created, transmitted, 
received, stored, processed and deleted.” Cybersecurity is “a property 
of cyberspace that is an ability to resist intentional and unintentional 
threats and respond and recover.”

At the other end of the spectrum, cyber war is “an escalated state of 
cyber conflict between or among states in which cyberattacks are carried 
out by state actors against cyber infrastructure as part of a military 
campaign,” either declared or undeclared.

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