Digital Soverignity

1. “International law on cyber security in the age of
Digital Sovereignty”
Organized by International forum of Lawyers and
Economics
Prabhpreet Singh
Assistant Professor, SoL, Manipal University Jaipur

2. Contentious
academic
debates
Cyberspace
should
remain free
Cyberspace
Should be
regulated

3. Three
dominant
ideas on how
cyberspace
should be
regulated by
International
law
Liberal Institutionalists: liberal institutionalists
like wu (1997) call for the importance of the
international institution and rule-based
multilateralism in managing cyberspace.
Cyberlibertarians: like John Barlow (1996) are
proponents of the idea that cyberspace should
remain free from tyranny and any oppressive rule
that might hinder the internet liberty.
Statists, like James Lewis (2010), believe that it is
states’ responsibility to formulate national and
international law to govern cyberspace.

4. International Law on Cyber Space
and Digital
Digital sovereignty is the idea to control and govern access, information,
communication, network, and infrastructure in digital realm by international actors.
The idea of digital sovereignty would disconnect global internet as it is now. As a
result, it hardens the possibility of international actors to come into agreement to
formulate effective and binding international law on cyber space.
It also hardens the possibility to adjudicate cases of cyber violations to state actors
since digital sovereignty is engrained with non-interference principles–it is difficult to
punish and blame state actors for their conduct in arbitration as we have seen in
International Criminal Court.
Regulating cyberspace by arbitration, Permanent Court of Arbitration

5. Cyber Attacks & Budapest
Convention
Recent occurrences of cyber attack
Channel Nine- It is an Australian broadcaster and was hit by cyber attack on March 28, 2021. Due to this attack channel was
unable to render the news bulletin on Sunday and several other shows were also affected. The headquarters, at Sydney was
unable to access to access internet and hence business and publishing tools were also down. Initially, the channel claimed that it
was due to technical difficulties but was later confirmed as cyber attack.
Harris Federation- It is Landon based federation and was hit by ransomware attack in March, 2021. Due to this, the federation
was forced to disable devices and email along with 50 secondary and primary academics managed by it. It was reported that
37,000 students were affected.
CNA Financial- It is one of the biggest cyber insurance firms at USA and suffered attack on March 21, 2021. The firm was forced
to shut down for three days to prevent any further compromise. The customers and employees were primary victim. A new
version of the Phoenix Crypto Locker was utilized and it is a form of ransomware.
Florida Water System- The cyber attackers made an attempt to poison the water supply at Florida. A bit of the plan was
managed by increasing the amount of sodium hydroxide. The criminals breached Oldsmar’s computer system and the amount
of sodium hydroxide increased from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million.

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