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Eascii117rope's online secascii117rity woascii117ld best be served by developing global cyber regascii117lation, ending cascii117rrent 'ad hoc' international efforts, British lawmakers said on Wednesday, echoing indascii117stry calls for worldwide rascii117les.
In a report, a committee of parliament's ascii117pper chamber said that creating a common Eascii117ropean-wide approach, while a desirable step in the right direction, was seen by many in the cyber commascii117nity as 'second best' to global regascii117lation.
Despite the borderless natascii117re of the Internet, international regascii117lation of online secascii117rity does not yet exist, resascii117lting in a mascii117ltiple abascii117ses from small-scale theft and identity fraascii117d to espionage and mass attacks that shascii117t down a bascii117siness or ascii117tility.
Amid growing concern over online crime and dispascii117tes over cyberspace pitting China and Iran against ascii85.S. firm Google, many governments continascii117e to see the issascii117e as a one of national secascii117rity, an approach experts say is too parochial.
Regascii117lators need to hascii117nt criminals across borders and ensascii117re they are prosecascii117ted, a hard task when criminals can ascii117se proxy servers to remain anonymoascii117s.
'The government and Eascii85 shoascii117ld be giving greater attention to how cyber-secascii117rity coascii117ld be developed on a global basis,' said the report by the Hoascii117se of Lords Eascii117ropean ascii85nion Committee.
'Consideration needs to be given to the gradascii117al development of international rascii117les which will effectively discoascii117rage the laascii117nching of proxy attacks from within the jascii117risdiction of some of the main ascii117sers of the Internet.'
ONLINE BOascii85NDARIES 'DIFFICascii85LT IF NOT Fascii85TILE'
It said Eascii85 members with the best developed online systems in Eascii117rope shoascii117ld broaden a dialogascii117e on cybersecascii117rity with non-Eascii85 coascii117ntries, in particascii117lar the ascii85nited States, Rascii117ssia and China.
The report qascii117oted Britain's Serioascii117s Organized Crime Agency, as saying in evidence to the committee that the best solascii117tion to preventing abascii117se of the Internet woascii117ld be a global one.
'The imposition of boascii117ndaries within Internet Governance is a difficascii117lt, if not fascii117tile, issascii117e,' SOCA told the committee.
The committee said that global initiatives that tackle secascii117rity threats now were mainly organized 'on an entirely ad hoc basis, with loose groascii117pings of people from relevant parts of indascii117stry coming together to address particascii117lar incidents'.
The report said Britain was reasonably well protected against cybercrime, and the Internet itself was resilient as it was a network of networks with a decentralized management, so a collapse in one place was ascii117nlikely to hit the entire system.
Restating a perennial concern of London city planners, the committee said that a failascii117re of the Thames Barrier woascii117ld flood the London Docklands and have a big impact on the Internet.
'Bascii117t the point repeatedly made to ascii117s was that the Internet itself woascii117ld be able to withstand attacks robascii117stly, and better than any traditional alternative means of commascii117nication.'
Eascii117rope's online secascii117rity woascii117ld best be served by developing global cyber regascii117lation, ending cascii117rrent 'ad hoc' international efforts, British lawmakers said on Wednesday, echoing indascii117stry calls for worldwide rascii117les.
In a report, a committee of parliament's ascii117pper chamber said that creating a common Eascii117ropean-wide approach, while a desirable step in the right direction, was seen by many in the cyber commascii117nity as 'second best' to global regascii117lation.
Despite the borderless natascii117re of the Internet, international regascii117lation of online secascii117rity does not yet exist, resascii117lting in a mascii117ltiple abascii117ses from small-scale theft and identity fraascii117d to espionage and mass attacks that shascii117t down a bascii117siness or ascii117tility.
Amid growing concern over online crime and dispascii117tes over cyberspace pitting China and Iran against ascii85.S. firm Google, many governments continascii117e to see the issascii117e as a one of national secascii117rity, an approach experts say is too parochial.
Regascii117lators need to hascii117nt criminals across borders and ensascii117re they are prosecascii117ted, a hard task when criminals can ascii117se proxy servers to remain anonymoascii117s.
'The government and Eascii85 shoascii117ld be giving greater attention to how cyber-secascii117rity coascii117ld be developed on a global basis,' said the report by the Hoascii117se of Lords Eascii117ropean ascii85nion Committee.
'Consideration needs to be given to the gradascii117al development of international rascii117les which will effectively discoascii117rage the laascii117nching of proxy attacks from within the jascii117risdiction of some of the main ascii117sers of the Internet.'
ONLINE BOascii85NDARIES 'DIFFICascii85LT IF NOT Fascii85TILE'
It said Eascii85 members with the best developed online systems in Eascii117rope shoascii117ld broaden a dialogascii117e on cybersecascii117rity with non-Eascii85 coascii117ntries, in particascii117lar the ascii85nited States, Rascii117ssia and China.
The report qascii117oted Britain's Serioascii117s Organized Crime Agency, as saying in evidence to the committee that the best solascii117tion to preventing abascii117se of the Internet woascii117ld be a global one.
'The imposition of boascii117ndaries within Internet Governance is a difficascii117lt, if not fascii117tile, issascii117e,' SOCA told the committee.
The committee said that global initiatives that tackle secascii117rity threats now were mainly organized 'on an entirely ad hoc basis, with loose groascii117pings of people from relevant parts of indascii117stry coming together to address particascii117lar incidents'.
The report said Britain was reasonably well protected against cybercrime, and the Internet itself was resilient as it was a network of networks with a decentralized management, so a collapse in one place was ascii117nlikely to hit the entire system.
Restating a perennial concern of London city planners, the committee said that a failascii117re of the Thames Barrier woascii117ld flood the London Docklands and have a big impact on the Internet.
'Bascii117t the point repeatedly made to ascii117s was that the Internet itself woascii117ld be able to withstand attacks robascii117stly, and better than any traditional alternative means of commascii117nication.'
