@inproceedings{b440c052395a404084fc150058ab388e,
title = "Challenges pertaining to cyber war under international law",
abstract = "State-level intrusion in the cyberspace of another country seriously threatens a state's peace and security. Consequently many types of cyberspace intrusion are being referred to as cyber war with scant regard to the legal position under international law. This is but one of the challenges facing state-level cyber intrusion. The current rules of international law prohibit certain types of intrusion. However, international law does not define which intrusion fall within the prohibited category of intrusion nor when the threshold of intrusion is surpassed. International lawyers have to determine the type of intrusion and threshold on a case-by-case basis. The Tallinn Manual may serve as guideline in this assessment, but determination of the type of intrusion and attribution to a specific state is not easily established. The current rules of international law do not prohibit all intrusion which on statelevel may be highly invasive and destructive. Unrestrained cyber intrusion may result in cyberspace becoming a battle space in which state(s) with strong cyber abilities dominate cyberspace resulting in resentment and fear among other states. The latter may be prevented on an international level by involving all states on an equal and transparent manner in cyberspace governance.",
keywords = "Cyber war, Estonia, Stuxnet, challenges, cyberspace governance, cyberspace state-level intrusion, international law",
author = "Murdoch Watney",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.; 2014 3rd International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare and Digital Forensic, CyberSec 2014 ; Conference date: 29-04-2014 Through 01-05-2014",
year = "2014",
month = sep,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1109/CyberSec.2014.6913962",
language = "English",
series = "2014 3rd International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare and Digital Forensic, CyberSec 2014",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "1--5",
booktitle = "2014 3rd International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare and Digital Forensic, CyberSec 2014",
address = "United States",
}