Due Diligence in Cyberspace?

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Join us for a discussion about states’ obligation to stop malicious cyber acts.

Due diligence has become a hot topic among States. But what is that and what does it obligate a State to do, especially when it comes to malicious actors using many States’ territories to perpetrate a cyberattack? States agreed that they “should not knowingly allow their territory to be used for internationally wrongful acts using ICTs [information and communications technologies] in the UN Group of Governmental Experts’ 2015 final report, but progress has been slow in defining how diligent a State must be to act on this voluntary obligation.

Join the Stimson Center and WFLS in this webinar where former senior US Government executive the Hon. Christopher Ford talks with top experts to explore the controversy and how to move States forward on these issues.

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Panelists

Mariana Salazar Albornoz is a Professor of International Law, International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. She recently concluded her 4-year mandate as a Member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States, where she served as Rapporteur on International Law Applicable to Cyberspace, promoting further transparency and understanding of the topic among the American States. Her last report of the Inter-American Juridical Committee. International Law Applicable to Cyberspace, published in October 2022, can be found here. She also served as Rapporteur on Privacy and Data Protection in the same Committee.

Dr. Andraz Kastelic is Lead Cyber Stability Researcher of the Security and Technology Programme at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to joining UNIDIR, Andraz held various research positions in different international organizations and research institutions around the world. Andraz holds a PhD in International Law, MA in Diplomacy and speaks 3 languages, including English. He is the author of the UNIDIR publications Due diligence in cyberspace: Normative expectations of reciprocal protection of international legal rights and Non-Escalatory Attribution of International Cyber Incidents: Facts, International Law and Politics, as well as other works.

Moderators

Dr. Christopher Ford is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He previously served as a MITRE Fellow and founding Director of the Center for Strategic Competition (CSC) at the MITRE Corporation. In prior government service, Dr. Ford served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, also exercising the authorities of the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, and before that as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for WMD and Counterproliferation at the U.S. National Security Council.

Giuliana Canè served as President of WFLS until 2021 and continues as a Member of the WFLS Board of Governors. An Italian national, has been appointed by the IDB Board of Executive Directors to serve as the Executive Secretary of the IDB Group Administrative Tribunal, starting on January 19, 2016. Ms. Canè joined the IDB from the World Bank where most recently she was Legal Counsel in the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Previously, she worked for in various departments of the World Bank Group, including the Investment Climate Advisory Service and the Legal Department (2010-2014 and 2004-2007). Prior to rejoining the World Bank, she worked at the Italian Prime Minister’s Office where she was in charge of the Investment Chapter of the G8 Italian Presidency (2008-2009). 

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