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Task Force Cyber Security
Dr. Sandro Gaycken
Senior Researcher, Institute of Computer Sci-ence, Free University of Berlin
Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn
Professor of Public Law and International Law, University of Giessen
Prof. Dr. Paul Cornish
Professor of International Security, University of Bath, UK
Attribution is one of the most pressing issues related to cyber security. It is important because passive protection is notoriously inefficient. At the same time, however, attribution seems just as difficult to achieve. Most experts share the view that attribution is impossible – at least when sophisticated attackers such as militaries or well-funded criminals are involved. This condition forces some urgent questions onto the agenda. Without attribution, active defense becomes impossible. Diplomacy and international law could be inapplicable. If that is the case, what is left for international regulation? How can the lack of attribution be compensated? How should states behave if they feel the need to react to non-attributable attacks? The US seems to be willing to tolerate a certain lack of attribution. Could this be a European position as well? The workshop will identify the technical and the regulatory problems of attribution and explore a possible European or German stance on cyber activities without the possibility of attribution.
The Task Force Cyber Security is a collaboration of the Future Forum Berlin of the German Council on Foreign Relations and the Institute of Computer Science of the Free University of Berlin.
The FUTURE FORUM BERLIN is working on issues of security and defense policy as well as aerospace policy.
