Together we can address the challenges of a new emerging order, writes Sophie Batas, Director of Cybersecurity, Huawei EU. As the turbulent year of 2020 comes to an end, it is clear that the past months have been quite extraordinary for all of us. Even though we are starting to see the end of the […]
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The use and abuse of national security: The need to adhere to the rules of the multilateral trading system
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The concept of national security, like almost everything else, has evolved over time. During the Cold War, it included the threat of conventional, biological and nuclear weapons being deployed against civilian and military targets. Countering this threat meant keeping standing armies in readiness, building underground fallout shelters, and developing extensive continuity of government (COG) plans for whatever survived after a nuclear exchange, writes Simon Lacey.
Today we still live under the shadow of nuclear annihilation, but we also live in the information age, meaning that the attack vectors which potentially threaten us have expanded to include what is referred to as “critical infrastructure”, encompassing everything from roads to railways, to ports, to the power grid, to the financial system and of course, the communications netw