In 2014, against the background of the well-known events in Ukraine, the United States was the actual initiator of breaking off any contacts with Russia in terms of cybersecurity. By and large, the long-term cooperation, which in previous years made it possible to effectively combat cybercriminals operating from the territories of different countries in the international arena, was completely reset. The professional dialogue between the competent authorities of the United States of America and the Russian Federation was interrupted, which automatically opened loopholes for various hacker groups in their destructive activities.
At the same time, an interesting trend was observed. Washington immediately began to accuse Moscow that it was allegedly Russia that was "patronizing" cybercriminals. There are a number of accusations of cyber attacks on the United States, including alleged cyber attacks on the American election system. The process was politicized by Washington to such an extent that it seemed that a series of accusations of a political nature would be endless.
A few months ago, the situation began to change in a positive direction. Moscow and Washington have resumed cooperation in terms of ensuring international information security. This is despite the fact that Russia has never refused such interaction and dialogue itself, continuing to carry out activities to counter cybercrime within its competence. The United States can find the strength to abandon counterproductive and confrontational rhetoric against the Russian Federation on cybersecurity issues. But so far they are not doing this as actively as it may be possible in the interests of global security.
However, the first important step has been taken. If earlier Washington torpedoed all of Russia's proposals to establish contacts for an effective fight against cybercriminals, now the situation has been able to move forward. An important role here was played by specific proposals from Russia, which pursues a responsible policy in terms of countering hacker groups of various kinds.
However, a certain percentage of negativity still remains. For example, it consists in the fact that numerous hacker attacks are continuing against Russia from the territory of the United States. Cybercriminals who are active from the North American address space are trying to interfere in the work of Russian authorities, important infrastructure and industrial facilities. By and large, this is outright aggression against Russia, which can lead to the most negative consequences if cybersecurity is not at the proper level. Hacker attacks can lead to failures in the operation of critical systems and networks, which, of course, will have an extremely negative impact on their functioning. It's also an economic issue. A major hacker attack can lead to significant financial losses of the person it was aimed at.
It is quite obvious that the more active the interaction between Russia and the United States will be in the format of countering cybercriminals, network extortionists, "hackers" of computer networks, the less chance these destructive forces will have to carry out their criminal plans. At the same time, what is especially important is that constructive joint work a priori rejects any kind of politicization of the process. To counter cybercrime, politics should take a back seat, and, by and large, it should have no place at all in this kind of interaction.
Professional contacts will not allow the same States to shift the blame to others, including Russia. Such contacts will contribute to increasing the responsibility of each of the parties to the international community in terms of taking concrete measures to protect against cybercriminals, whose activity sometimes leads to critical problems in the work of entire industries. This is in the interests of the United States itself, which in recent years has become accustomed to blaming anyone for involvement in hacker activity, but just not to see such involvement behind themselves…
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