The Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + Security Science has created this International Strategy for Cyberspace (ISC) as a strategic-level policy document offering a practical, comprehensive, and clear vision for the future of cyberspace. It sets an agenda for partnering on cybersecurity and associated initiatives at an international level, and highlights the importance of international cooperation in advancing cyberspace as a foreign policy priority.

1. CSCSS AND ISC:
A COORDINATED
STRATEGY
FRAMEWORK
ISC (INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY FOR CYBERSPACE)
CENTRE FOR STRATEGIC
CYBERSPACE + SECURITY SCIENCE
CSCSS

2. The Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + Security Science
has created this International Strategy for Cyberspace (ISC)
as a strategic-level policy document offering a practical,
comprehensive, and clear vision for the future of cyberspace.
It sets an agenda for partnering on cybersecurity and
associated initiatives at an international level, and highlights
the importance of international cooperation in advancing
cyberspace as a foreign policy priority.
A CSCSS STRATEGIC
APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL
CYBERSECURITY

3. The Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + Security Science (CSCSS)
has developed its International Strategy for Cyberspace (ISC).
In support of this strategy, CSCSS will continue to promote cyber
innovation, initiatives, research, and education in its approach to
international cyberspace issues and policies. CSCSS identifies
the challenges to, and enhances, national, international, and
economic security, focusing on cyber-environments that ar
defined as being:
n OPEN to innovation
n INTEROPERABLE the world over
n SECURE enough to earn people’s trust
n RELIABLE enough to support their work
These characteristics provide a basic framework for international
obligations in cyberspace. They reflect the responsibility and
obligations of states that apply regardless of context.
The principles that should support cyberspace norms include:
n Economic Engagement
n Protecting Networks
n Law Enforcement
n Protection from Crime
n Military Cooperation
n Multi-Stakeholder Internet Governance
n International Cybersecurity Development
n Internet Freedom
n Valuing Privacy
n Upholding Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms
and the Right to Self Defense
n International Cybersecurity Awareness
and Workforce Education
Driving Security and Technical Capacity through
Cybersecurity Capacity Building
Cooperation, partnership, and credibility are critical to
cultivating a dynamic, international research community able to
take on the development of technologies required to face next-
generation challenges to cybersecurity. It is imperative that we
acknowledge cybersecurity as a global issue that must be
addressed through strategic pan-national efforts on the part
of all countries focused on cybersecurity capacity building. In
recognition of this, CSCSS will expand and regularize initiatives
focused on cybersecurity capacity building and cyber technology
development through:
n High-level bilateral, multilateral, and international
partnerships
n Collaboration with public-private sector and academia
n Enhancement of national-level cybersecurity
n Ongoing promotion of cyber technology development, while
addressing cybercrime and counterintelligence
CSCSS, as part of its vision and mission, and in support of its
International Strategy for Cyberspace, will work in collaboration
with the public-private sector leveraging relationships with
industry, academia, government agencies, and international
cyber-counterintelligence community partners to establish an
environment in which the norms of responsible behavior guide
actions, sustain partnerships, and support the rule of law.
These norms include:
n Global (Cyber) Interoperability
n Cybersecurity Due Diligence
n Multi-Stakeholder Governance
n Upholding Fundamental Freedoms
n Respect for Property
n Valuing Privacy
n Protection from Crime
n Right of Self-Defense
n Network Stability
n Reliable Access
Development: Building Prosperity and Cybersecurity
We believe the benefits of a connected globe are collective.
Through our international relationships, partnerships, and
associations, CSCSS will continue to support strategies that
ensure as many nation-states as possible recognize the virtues
of an open, interoperable, secure, and reliable cyber-environment,
and become responsible stakeholders in cyberspace.
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4. International Policy Priorities
The International Strategy for Cyberspace is an invitation to
other nations and peoples to unite in a vision of prosperity,
security, and openness through a digitally interconnected world;
to coordinate their roles in international cyberspace policy, and
to define and execute a specific way forward on the international
cyber-stage.
CSCSS advances its activities across inter-reliant areas of
operation relating to cybersecurity research, development,
and education. Each area demands collaboration with the
public-private sector, academia, and international cyber-counter-
intelligence community partners. Taken as a whole, they form
the action lines of an international strategic framework through
which CSCSS will:
Promote International Standards, Technological
Innovation, and Open Markets Supporting the Economy
and Economic Growth
n Endorse free-trade environments
n Encourage technological innovation on accessible and secure
globally-linked networks
n Protect intellectual property
n Ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability
of interoperable and secure technical standards
Protecting Critical Infrastructure
In coordination with industry partners, CSCSS will create
a set of risk-based standards related to industry-critical
infrastructure verticals, and will drive the development
of cybersecurity plans to meet these standards
Promote Cyber-Collaboration and the Rule of Law
n Act as voice for international cybercrime and policy
development
n Work to define and harmonize cybercrime laws,
internationally, through the expansion and adoption
of the Budapest Convention
n Focus, leverage, expand, and endorse cybercrime laws
to fight illegal activities, not to restrict access to the internet
n Deny terrorists and cyber-criminals the means with which
to exploit the internet and cyber technologies for planning,
financing, or attacks
Computer Security Law Enforcement
CSCSS will work globally to clarify and synchronize the fund-
amental legislative elements of cybercrimes and cyber-law and
to create standardized penalties for violations of the law
Data Breach Notification
CSCSS will actively promote provisions that would establish
a national data breach reporting system. The provisions are
aimed at standardizing the requirements for reporting security
breaches by, among other things, establishing statutory
definitions of a ‘security breach’ and ‘sensitive personally
identifiable information’
Promote National Security:
Facing Emerging Security Challenges
n Collectively and internationally defend our national and
economic interests, citizens, and allies everywhere they might
be threatened
n Recognize, distinguish, and adapt to national security
requirements for increasingly reliable, resilient, and
secure networks
n Build-on, enhance, and expand cooperation existing between
national, international, intelligence, and military alliances to
confront potential threats in cyberspace and to increase
collective cybersecurity
Promote Effective Internet Governance
and Frameworks
n Promote internet governance structures that effectively serve
the needs of all global internet users
n Drive openness, ethical competition, and innovation
on the internet
n Protect global internet security and stability
n Endorse and enhance a multi-stakeholder stage in a global
theater for the discussion of internet governance issues and
challenges relating to cybersecurity, spotlighting cooperation
and collaboration
Coordination of Information Security Policies
CSCSS will work at a global level to establish a coordinated
approach to information security policies relating to existing
cyber-efforts as well as established international polices such as
the Convention on Cybercrime of the Council of Europe (also
known as the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime), the leading
treaty to combat cybercrime internationally
International Cybersecurity Awareness
and Workforce Education
As part of its mandate, CSCSS will focus on building a
responsible and competent workforce through cybersecurity
awareness and education research programs.
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5. International Development: Building Capacity,
Security, and Prosperity
n Provide the essential and required knowledge, awareness,
training, and resources to effectively build comprehensive
technical and cybersecurity capacity, globally
n Develop and disseminate effective and practical international
cybersecurity best practices on an on-going basis
n Improve the ability, through international-national law,
to fight cybercrime on a global level
n Define, focus, and develop critical relationships with policy-
makers to enhance technical capacity building through regular
and ongoing contact with industry experts and partners
Support Fundamental Freedoms and Privacy in Cyberspace
n Support the goals of achieving reliable, secure, and safe
platforms for freedoms of expression and association
n Collaborate with civil society and non-government
organizations to establish safeguards protecting their internet
activity from unlawful digital intrusions
n Encourage international collaboration and cooperation for
effective data, information platforms, and systems privacy
protections
n Ensure the end-to-end interoperability of an internet
accessible to all
Cybersecurity Information Sharing
CSCSS will strive to encourage, incentivize, and protect global
collaboration and sharing of cybersecurity research and cyber-
incident information with government agencies, public-private
industry, and academia
Privacy and Civil Liberties
CSCSS will promote cybersecurity reforms that define and
implement cybersecurity laws in accordance with privacy
standards and globally defined cyber-civil liberties
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About CSCSS
The Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + Security Science / CSCSS
is a multilateral, international not-for-profit organization that
conducts independent cyber-centric research, development,
analysis, and training in the areas of cyberspace, defence
intelligence, cyber security, and science while addressing the
threats, trends, and opportunities shaping international security
policies and national cyberspace cyber security initiatives.
CSCSS, as a strategic leader in cyberspace, works jointly with
key partners to address, develop, and define cyber technologies,
cyber defence force capabilities, information dominance, and
concept operations. We deliver practical recommendations and
innovative solutions and strategies to advance a secure
cyberspace domain.
Internationally, CSCSS operates in the United Kingdom, Europe,
United States, South America, Australia, and Canada.
CSCSS Collaborative Partners
The Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + Security Science operates
in a collaborative partnership with agencies and organizations
that share our commitment to the advancement of Cybersecurity,
National + International Security, Cyber Education and
Awareness, and Cybersecurity Research and Initiatives.
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The Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + Security Science
will continue to engage with industry and national
partners in our work to build collaboration on
cyberspace issues. This is essential in order to support
international and multi-national stakeholder efforts to
enhance national-level cybersecurity, build confidence
in globally inter-connected networks, and collaborate
across borders to fight the criminal exploitation of
information technologies.
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