Abstract
The article analyses the problem of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, including facilities of the nuclear industry. At present there is almost no international legal regulation of the possible usage of information technologies in order to information systems used by object of the critically important infrastructure. Still, there has been an unprecedented growth in the information threats in recent years. As it was revealed in 2010, several Middle East States, first of all Iran in 2008, were the target for a series of systematic and sophisticated computer attacks, whose initiators remain unknown, which were aimed at the collection of information about the objects of critical information infrastructure of these states and its program intrusion. The author supports the thesis of the need for early development of international legal instruments to prevent and prohibit such cyber attacks. At the same time the leadership in the formulation and solution of this problem on the international scene can assume the Russian Federation, whose initiatives have since 1998 shaped the global agenda in terms of regulating the behavior of states in cyberspace. Despite the significant differences of different countries in this area, their positions on ensuring protection against cyber attacks peaceful nuclear infrastructure are the closest to a consensus, creating a window of opportunity for practical progress on this issue in 2013-2014.
Highlights
The article analyses the problem of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, including facilities of the nuclear industry
The author supports the thesis of the need for early development of international legal instruments to prevent and prohibit such cyber attacks
At the same time the leadership in the formulation and solution of this problem on the international scene can assume the Russian Federation, whose initiatives have since 1998 shaped the global agenda in terms of regulating the behavior of states in cyberspace
Summary
НОВЫЙ ПРИОРИТЕТ ДЛЯ РОССИЙСКОЙ ПУБЛИЧНОЙ ДИПЛОМАТИИ: ПРЕДОТВРАЩЕНИЕ КИБЕРАТАК НА ОБЪЕКТЫ КРИТИЧЕСКОЙ ИНФРАСТРУКТУРЫ. На сегодняшний день международно-правовые нормы практически не охватывают использование информационно-коммуникационных технологий в целях нанесения ущерба информационным системам, обеспечивающим деятельность объектов критической инфраструктуры. Несмотря на существенные расхождения различных государств в данной сфере, их позиции в части обеспечения защиты от кибератак мирной атомной инфраструктуры наиболее близки к консенсусу, что создает коридор для практического продвижения в этом вопросе уже в 2013–2014 гг. Flame, Wiper, Stuxnet и ряда других) привели атомной энергетики и обладающее сложной и высомеждународное экспертное сообщество к выводу коразвитой инфраструктурой атомной энергетики, о том, что для создания использовались ресурсы, как и немногие другие участники международного доступные лишь государственным структурам, а сообщества, заинтересована в обеспечении безоцели применения данных программных средств пасности объектов мирной атомной отрасли, в том лежат не в криминальной, а в международно-по- числе от угроз,. На- ных форм информационного оружия [1]
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