2024 Cyber Stability Conference: Unpacking Cyber Threats to International Peace & Security (Day 2.1)

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Day 2 - 1 March 2024, 10:00-13:00 CET (Trusteeship Council Chamber)
10:00-10:15 - High-Level Opening Remarks
- Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, UNODA
- H.E. Mr. Burhan Gafoor, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations in New York, Chair of the Open-ended Working Group on Security of and in the Use of Information and Communications Technologies 2021-2025
- Robin Geiss, Director, UNIDIR
10:15-11:30 - Session 2. Part 1: How are different types of malicious cyber activities undermining national, regional and international security?
This session will focus on various types of malicious cyber activities and how they could be leveraged to undermine international peace and security. In particular, this session will focus on two types of malicious acts most frequently referred to as threats by states in their interventions: ransomware, as type of attack, and supply chain attacks, as a strategy to deliver the malicious code. The goal is to develop a shared baseline understanding of these two threats, how they work, what vulnerabilities they can leverage and how significant their impact can be.
Moderator:
- Beyza Unal, Head of Science, Technology and International Security Unit, UNODA
Speakers:
- Eric Wenger, Senior Director for Technology Policy, Cisco
- Noguchi Kazuo, Senior Manager, R&D, Hitachi
- Lena Connolly, Assistant Professor in Cyber Security, Zayed University
- Pavel Mraz, Researcher, Security and Technology Programme, UNIDIR
- Tima Soni, Chief of Cybersecurity Division, UNICC
- Mirlinda Karcanaj, Director General of the National Agency of Information Society, Albania
11:30-11:45 - Coffee break
11:45-13:00 - Session 2. Part 2: How different types of malicious cyber activities impact the implementation of the framework of responsible State behaviour? How can such framework be used to prevent, disrupt or mitigate such impact? What other mechanisms outside of the UN could be leveraged?
This session will explore how different types of attacks and attack strategies, namely ransomware and supply chain attacks, relate to the framework of responsible state behaviour and in particular to the implementation of the norms and confidence-building measures. The session will explore both sides of such relationship: how do these threats impact the implementation of the framework as well as how can the implementation of the framework provide states the tools and capacity to mitigate the impact of such threats. In addition, this session will also explore how other mechanisms outside of the UN could be leveraged to reinforce, complement or supplement the framework of responsible state behaviour in dealing with the complexity of the threat actors landscape.
Moderator:
- Samuele Dominioni, Researcher, Security and Technology Programme, UNIDIR
Speakers:
- John Reyels, Head of Cyberstaff, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Eugene EG Tan, Associate Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence for National Security Singapore (Nanyang Technological University)
- Anastasiya Kazakova, Cyber Diplomacy Knowledge Fellow, DiploFoundation
- Elaine Korzak, Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Long-term Cybersecurity, UC Berkeley
- Karl Karlovich Tikhaze, Deputy Director, Department of International Information Security of the Russian Federation
Resources:
📘 #CS24 Event Page: unidir.org/event/2024-cyber-s...
🤖 Our Security and Technology Programme: undir.org/sectec
🌐 The UN Institute for Disarmament Research: unidir.org