Putin is proposing a new cyber security collaboration with the United States, including a no-hack pact for the upcoming Presidential election.
Russian Government has published a statement by President Vladimir Putin that proposes to the United States a comprehensive program of measures for restoring the Russia – US cooperation in information security.
Russia was accused of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election, in February 2018 the special prosecutor Robert Mueller accused thirteen Russian nationals of tampering with the election and charged them with conspiring against the United States.
The measures proposed by Putin aim at building up a mutual trust between the two Governments, the collaboration will contribute to ensure global peace in the information space.
“One of today’s major strategic challenges is the risk of a large-scale confrontation in the digital field. A special responsibility for its prevention lies on the key players in the field of ensuring international information security (IIS).” reads the statement. “In this regard, we would like to once again address the US with a suggestion to agree on a comprehensive program of practical measures to reboot our relations in the field of security in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).”
Putin suggested four actions to set up a prolific collaboration on Information security.
- To restore a regular full-scale bilateral interagency high-level dialogue on the key issues of ensuring IIS.
- To maintain a continuous and effective functioning of the communication channels between competent agencies of our States through Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers, Computer Emergency Readiness Teams and high-level officials in charge of the issues of IIS within the bodies involved in ensuring national security, includig that of information.
- To jointly develop and conclude a bilateral intergovernmental agreement on preventing incidents in the information space similarly to the Soviet-American Agreement on the Prevention of Incidents On and Over the High Seas in force since 25 May 1972.
- To exchange, in a mutually acceptable format, guarantees of non-intervention into internal affairs of each other, including into electoral processes, inter alia, by means of the ICTs and high-tech methods.
Recently, the FBI warned that foreign actors and cybercriminals could spear disinformation aimed at discrediting the electoral process and undermine confidence in U.S. democratic institutions
The proposal of collaboration in information security is not new, the two states already discussed on the topic in 2017.
Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2017
At the time, Putin and Trump discussed the creation of a joint Cyber Security unit, but the event and the tensions between the two states halted any joint initiative.
(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Putin)
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Pierluigi Paganini
Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at “Cyber Defense Magazine”, Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog “Security Affairs” recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the “The Hacker News” team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books “The Deep Dark Web” and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.
Putin is proposing a new cyber security collaboration with the United States, including a no-hack pact for the upcoming Presidential election.
Russian Government has published a statement by President Vladimir Putin that proposes to the United States a comprehensive program of measures for restoring the Russia – US cooperation in information security.
Russia was accused of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election, in February 2018 the special prosecutor Robert Mueller accused thirteen Russian nationals of tampering with the election and charged them with conspiring against the United States.
The measures proposed by Putin aim at building up a mutual trust between the two Governments, the collaboration will contribute to ensure global peace in the information space.
“One of today’s major strategic challenges is the risk of a large-scale confrontation in the digital field. A special responsibility for its prevention lies on the key players in the field of ensuring international information security (IIS).” reads the statement. “In this regard, we would like to once again address the US with a suggestion to agree on a comprehensive program of practical measures to reboot our relations in the field of security in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).”
Putin suggested four actions to set up a prolific collaboration on Information security.
- To restore a regular full-scale bilateral interagency high-level dialogue on the key issues of ensuring IIS.
- To maintain a continuous and effective functioning of the communication channels between competent agencies of our States through Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers, Computer Emergency Readiness Teams and high-level officials in charge of the issues of IIS within the bodies involved in ensuring national security, includig that of information.
- To jointly develop and conclude a bilateral intergovernmental agreement on preventing incidents in the information space similarly to the Soviet-American Agreement on the Prevention of Incidents On and Over the High Seas in force since 25 May 1972.
- To exchange, in a mutually acceptable format, guarantees of non-intervention into internal affairs of each other, including into electoral processes, inter alia, by means of the ICTs and high-tech methods.
Recently, the FBI warned that foreign actors and cybercriminals could spear disinformation aimed at discrediting the electoral process and undermine confidence in U.S. democratic institutions
The proposal of collaboration in information security is not new, the two states already discussed on the topic in 2017.
Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2017
At the time, Putin and Trump discussed the creation of a joint Cyber Security unit, but the event and the tensions between the two states halted any joint initiative.
(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Putin)