ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses tools and arrangements against online terrorism, namely cyber security and encryption. More specifically, in the absence of global instruments and arrangements on countering online terrorism and extremism, regions and countries turn to bilateral and multilateral cooperation mechanisms between their intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The available literature on international cooperation in counter messaging is scant. The new Canadian cyber strategy makes no explicit mention of online terrorism, radicalization, and extremism. In the short term, the most promising way for dealing with the presence of violent extremists and their propaganda on the Internet is to exploit their online communications to gain intelligence and gather evidence in the most comprehensive and systematic fashion possible. Intelligence data has its own perils in terms of management of information, intelligence analysis, and discerning actionable from non-actionable signals. US documents emphasize international cyber cooperation with “like-minded countries, industry, academia and civil society”.