Publication

This paper outlines the arguments for pushing for more rapid progress in US-Russian cooperation on cybersecurity. It urges the two sides to make good on their public announcement in December 2009 that they would begin new consultations on cybersecurity in the framework of a UN General Assembly resolution. To examine the obstacles and ways to overcome them, the paper discusses four possible areas of cooperation: public key infrastructure; rapid response to cyber crime; deliberation by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on laws of cyber war; and NATO-Russia cybersecurity cooperation.