
World leaders at the NATO summit in Brussels on Monday agreed to a new cyber defense policy, the first in seven years, which affirms the alliance’s position that certain adversarial cyber activity may be considered “an armed attack” that would trigger the Article 5 collective defense clause. “We reaffirm that a decision as to when a cyber attack would lead to the invocation of Article 5 would be taken by the North Atlantic Council on a case-by-case basis. Allies recognize…