ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews a sampling of the relevant cybersecurity events, the unsuccessful attempts made by the policy sector to address them and their implications. It deals with proposals to address the unsettling and dangerous trends in the fields of critical infrastructure protection and international cybersecurity policy. Robert Lipovsky claims the Industroyer being the biggest threat to Industrial Control Systems since Stuxnet the ‘malware was developed to exploit vulnerabilities in those systems and communications protocols they use – systems developed with almost no security measures’. The efforts made far have led to few relevant agreements on confidence-building measures that could support the establishment of a more manageable and stable security environment in cyberspace. Unlike the coordinated and successful international efforts to confront cybercrime such as the European Council’s Convention on Cybercrime the efforts to manage malicious cyber activities of states have been trivial when considering the threat state resourced cyber weapons pose to humanity.
