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Report Recommends Framework For Responses To Cyber Incidents

Tuesday, September 1st, 2015

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Report Recommends Framework For Responses To Cyber Incidents

CFR Cyber Brief Figure 1: Policy Responses to Escalating State-Sponsored Cyber Incidents. Image: The Council on Foreign Relations.

Policymakers should develop a framework to respond proportionally to state-sponsored cyberattacks, according to a think tank report released late last month.The cyber brief from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), “Developing a Proportionate Response to a Cyber Incident,” outlines a possible framework that outlines different levers of state power that can be used in response to escalating cyber incidents, combining incident impact, policy options, and proportionality.The author, Tobias Freakin, said that governments are unprepared to respond to cyberattacks adequately with…

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