Canadian Cybersecurity
A live conversation featuring Ron Deibert, director of the University of Toronto’s citizen lab.
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Hi everyone, and welcome to the CIC and CDFAI's Future of Fighting discussion, “Canada and cybersecurity," with Professor Ron Deibert, Director of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab . I am an assistant professor of public and international affairs the University of Ottawa and the moderator of the Future of Fighting Series. I will be moderating this discussion - and the five that follow. We’re looking forward to bringing in questions from the online public, so please add them to the live-chat or, for those on Twitter, use #CICLive. -
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Canadians should be concerned about the threats to cyberspace as an open commons, in both a practical immediate sense - with respect to the security of their personal data, and breaches to government, private sector, and potentially critical infrastructure, but also with respect to the large issues around governance of cyberspace at a global level, which will impact us indirectly and in the long run.
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Charli - that is an excellent question...The object of security, so to speak, is an essential issue. Unfortunately, the two are sometimes confused by policymakers who seem more concerned about protecting networks than thinking of the networks as means to a larger end: human security.
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Question for Ron: How can/should governments (in this case, the Canadian goevrnment) develop a "foreign policy" for cyberspace when it impinges on domestic policy so pervasively? Cyberspace is no longer about state-state interactions. Some of the most...influential (positive/negative) actors in cyberspace are non-state entities.
On a related question, how can we attribute 'foreign policy' directives for the Canadian government? I'm alluding to the unattributed cyberattacks in Estonia and Georgia. -
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Question for Ron:
1) How can/should governments (in this case, the Canadian goevrnment) develop a "foreign policy" for cyberspace when it impinges on domestic policy so pervasively? Cyberspace is no longer about state-state interactions. Some of the most...influential (positive/negative) actors in cyberspace are non-state entities. -
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The Canadian government should work with like-minded regimes to set a framework for cyberspace governance which rests on a distributed model: no one central authority; multi-stakeholder governance; multiple checks and balances on power, esp on national security organs
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Which, if any, countries have model strategies for a secure but open and free cyberspace? #cicliveby naomi_joseph via twitter 5/22/2012 2:19:57 PM -
"The Canadian government should work with like-minded regimes to set a framework for cyberspace governance which rests on a distributed model: no one central authority; multi-stakeholder governance; multiple checks and balances on power, esp on national security organs."
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We need to build up the capacity of institutions who presently govern the Internet, and do it well: the networks of engineers and computer scientists for example, rather than look to build a new global agency. This strategy is maybe a bit ironic, since it rests on actually circumscribing strongly the role of the state in cyberspace. The negation of government power in cyberspace, in other words
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There is a very real contest taking place at the international arena around cyberspace governance. Most observers see it as a struggle between China, Russia, and other countries that prefer centralized control and the U.S, UK, and other liberal democracies that prefer a more open Internet.
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My question relates to Ron's statement re: 'like-minded regimes' vs. 'multi-stakeholder engagement'. What space is there in cyberspace governance for non-state actors? Should we be including groups like Wikileaks (vs "benign groups," like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Global Voices, etc.), in deliberating cyberspace governance.
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Scott has a follow up question: What space is there in cyberspace governance for non-state actors? Should we be including groups like Wikileaks (vs "benign groups," like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Global Voices, etc.), in deliberating cyberspace governance.
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