No. 244 Public Attribution of Cyber Incidents

No. 244 Public Attribution of Cyber Incidents

Author(s): Florian Egloff, Andreas Wenger
Editor(s): Fabien Merz
Series Editor(s): Lisa Watanabe, Fabien Merz, Benno Zogg
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 244
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2019

Cyber incidents are increasingly being publicly attributed to specific perpetrators. The public attributions issued by states and cybersecurity companies often lack both transparency and verifiability. Strengthening trust in public attributions requires institutional mechanisms at the international level as well as the engagement of the state, the corporate sector, and civil society.
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