On 11 July SIPRI and the German Federal Foreign Office hosted an Open-Ended Working Group side event at the German Mission in New York to launch a new SIPRI report, ‘Cyber Risk Reduction in China, Russia, the United States and the European Union’.
The hybrid panel featured a discussion among Chinese, European, Russian and US experts on their respective definitions and regulatory measures targeting cyber risk reduction. The wide-ranging discussion clearly highlighted where stakeholders’ approaches converged and diverged. The event aimed to enhance communication, information sharing, best practices and confidence-building measures.
This side event was moderated by the authors of the report—Dr Lora Saalman, Senior Researcher at SIPRI, Fei Su, Researcher in the SIPRI China and Asia Security Programme, and Larisa Saveleva Dovgal, Research Assistant in the SIPRI Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme—and was conducted under the Chatham House Rule.
About SIPRI’s work on cybersecurity
Networked information and communications technologies have become an essential part of everyday life. The societal benefits of these technologies are beyond dispute. It is also evident, however, that these technologies generate new kinds of risks for international, national and human security. SIPRI seeks to contribute to a better understanding of what these security risks are perceived to be and how states, private companies and international organizations may respond.
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