Update: Cybersecurity at the UN

Elaine Korzak
Thursday, January 7, 2016, 2:44 PM

Over the holidays the UN General Assembly formally adopted this year’s resolution on information security. The text, which mandates the creation of a new Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) for 2016-2017, had already been approved in the First Committee, the General Assembly’s specialized committee dealing with international security and disarmament.

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Over the holidays the UN General Assembly formally adopted this year’s resolution on information security. The text, which mandates the creation of a new Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) for 2016-2017, had already been approved in the First Committee, the General Assembly’s specialized committee dealing with international security and disarmament. After budgetary considerations, the resolution has now been approved by the General Assembly and was issued last week. The new GGE will face a number of challenges as discussed in a previous post.

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Elaine Korzak

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Elaine Korzak, PhD, LLM is a research scholar at the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab (BRSL) at UC Berkeley and an affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. Her research focuses on international cybersecurity governance, including norms and international law governing state conduct in cyberspace, cybersecurity negotiations at the United Nations, and the international regulation of commercial spyware.
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