Trade Regimes as a Tool for Cyber Policy

Purpose This research develops a framework for assessing international trade regimes which could be used to address global cybersecurity challenges based on the corresponding costs of implementation and their distribution. Trade regimes, such as export controls, tariffs, investment restrictions and localization requirements, have disparate effects on foreign and domestic producers...

Data Flows and the Digital Economy: Information as a Mobile Factor of Production

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the direction and balance of transnational information flows and look at how nonpriced digital information exchanges related to international trade in goods and services. Design/methodology/approach The authors obtained quantitative data about Web-related data flows between countries and regions using Telegeography data on “Server Location...

IS IT TIME TO INSTITUTIONALIZE CYBER-ATTRIBUTION?

Authoritative attribution of cyberattacks to nation-state actors requires more than purely technical solutions. New institutions are needed to develop the credibility and procedural checks and balances that can take attribution beyond one nation pointing its finger at one of its adversaries. This white paper explores the attribution challenge, reviews proposed models for new institutions and sketches an agenda for future research.