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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Abulkhirat Esam<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> EASTWEST INSTITUTE
RELEASES REPORT URGING JOINT NATO-RUSSIA CYBER MILITARY EXERCISES TO SPUR
U.S.-RUSSIA COOPERATION ON CYBERSECURITY<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>For Immediate
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September 15, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<h1 align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>EASTWEST INSTITUTE RELEASES REPORT URGING JOINT
NATO-RUSSIA CYBER MILITARY EXERCISES TO SPUR U.S.-RUSSIA COOPERATION ON
CYBERSECURITY<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>NEW YORK.
September 15, 2010. The EastWest Institute today released a report calling
for Russia and the United States to work together to protect the
world’s digital infrastructure, including joint participation in
NATO-Russia cyber military exercises. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>According to
the report’s co-authors EWI’s Franz-Stefan Gady and Greg
Austin, this is just one step that the United States and Russia could
undertake as a part of a broader effort to secure cyberspace – a
potentially groundbreaking collaboration between the two former rivals. <em><i><font
face=Verdana><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Russia, The
United States, and Cyber Diplomacy: Opening the Doors </span></font></i></em>takes
as its starting point the nations’ pledge to begin talks on promoting
cybersecurity made in the United Nations last December – talks that
have been slow in coming.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>“It is
important for both the United States and Russia to recognize that
cybersecurity is a global problem, transcending national boundaries,”
says Austin. He points out that cyber attacks can be launched from anywhere
in the world, target dozens of nations and be impossible to attribute,
which prevents individual states from tracking and prosecuting criminals.
“Mutual exchanges of information like the cyber military exercises
would help both nations better protect themselves against such
threats.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>In their
report, Gady and Austin recommend three other possible areas of
collaboration, each to be jointly addressed in a specific international
forum: (1) an agreement on Public Key Infrastructure -- the certificates
and identification systems that protect private information on the Internet
-- in the International Telecommunication Union; (2) an expanded Network of
Contact for High Tech-Crime under the G8 and the creation of a 24/7 point
of contact; (3) joint policy assessments of international cyber law in the
OSCE.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Given the
bilateral relationship’s long difficult history, is it realistic to
think that Russia and the United States can cooperate effectively on
cybersecurity? The authors believe it is, even to the extent of staging
cyber military exercises. As Austin says, “The United States and
Russia are facing a shared threat, a shared set of vulnerabilities from
personal information and banking records to controls on nuclear power
plants. To safeguard the world’s information infrastructure, the old
policy paradigms will simply have to change.” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The publication
is available for download at: <a
href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=vidcttcab&et=1103687087190&s=6268&e=0013gt0wGxacvX11HpqjKmY0JjC8CdoIoCiKyhBnMzb9BCiM7r1e1AfoUuLaI1OCXi3aVF8AGyhbpxqSQCACTzeHvX5pA5du-eVVNdORjbuy4oEAgWaq2ylktA_NY9dwF_Wy099QeNs2bIGOiJcGRskVrb3A9NFcQ00WYGv8P9JW4wR_kTyYMIQJQ=="
target="_blank">http://www.ewi.info/russia-united-states-and-cyber-diplomacy-opening-doors</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><b><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Contacts:
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<strong><b><font face=Verdana><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Abby
Rabinowitz: </span></font></b></strong><a href="mailto:arabinowitz@ewi.info">arabinowitz@ewi.info</a>,
+212-824-4145<br>
<strong><b><font face=Verdana><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Dragan
Stojanovski: </span></font></b></strong><a
href="mailto:dstojanovski@ewi.info">dstojanovski@ewi.info</a>, +32
27434611. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><strong><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>About the EastWest Institute: </span></font></b></strong>The
EastWest Institute is an international, non-partisan, not-for profit policy
organization focused solely on confronting critical challenges that
endanger peace. EWI was established in 1980 as a catalyst to build trust,
develop leadership, and promote collaboration for positive change. The
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