The International Landscape Of Cyber Security

This chapter addresses the history, development, effectiveness, and prospects for international cooperation against cybercrime. The first section introduces the question and growing significance of cybercrime. The second provides an overview of international intergovernmental cybercrime organizations at the global level. The effectiveness and potential for different bilateral and multilateral information sharing and cooperative prosecution regimes along with measures for standardizing international conventions on cybercrime are discussed. The third presents the actions of regional intergovernmental organizations such as OPEC, APEC, the EU, OAS, and the SADC. In section four, public-private and purely private-sector actors are also presented. The authors conclude with an assessment of the current and prospective effectiveness and scalability of these efforts.