Cyber operations and international law / François Delerue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delerue, François, 1987- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 146.

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 146

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyberspace operations (International law).

Cyberspace operations (Military science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 513 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the international law applicable to cyber operations, including a systematic examination of attribution, lawfulness and remedies. It demonstrates the importance of countermeasures as a form of remedies and also shows the limits of international law, highlighting its limits in resolving issues related to cyber operations. There are several situations in which international law leaves the victim State of cyber operations helpless. Two main streams of limits are identified. First, in the case of cyber operations conducted by non-state actors on the behalf of a State, new technologies offer various ways to coordinate cyber operations without a high level of organization. Second, the law of State responsibility offers a range of solutions to respond to cyber operations and seek reparation, but it does not provide an answer in every case and it cannot solve the problem related to technical capabilities of the victim.

Contents:

Does International Law Matter in Cyberspace?

Attribution to a machine or a human: a technical process

The question of evidence: from technical to legal attribution

Attribution to a State

Internationally wrongful cyber acts: cyber operations breaching norms of international law

The threshold of cyber warfare: from use of cyber force to cyber armed attack

Circumstances precluding or attenuating the wrongfulness of unlawful cyber operations

Cyber operations and the principle of due diligence

State responsibility and the consequences of an internationally wrongful cyber operation

Measures of self-help against state-sponsored cyber operations

Conclusion

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2020).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108780605

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Restricted for use by site license.