Cherian Samuel

The UNGGE process is the least bad option to keep open channels and maintain continued focus on securing cyberspace.

• Cherian Samuel |
• March 21, 2018 |
• IDSA Comments

• Cherian Samuel, Munish Sharma |
• 2018 |
• Book

The introduction to Alexander Klimburg’s book, The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace, begins by referencing the Indian parable of the Blind Men of Hindoostan and the elephant to bring out the difficulty of ‘grasping the entirety of cyberspace’. The focus of his book is on international security, and more specifically, the security interests of states in cyberspace. That said, a large part of the book focuses on three countries—the United States, Russia and China—and their approaches and actions in cyberspace. Europe is mentioned largely in the context of privacy and data laws.

• Cherian Samuel |
• October 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

The 2017 Conference also comes at a time when the existing international discourses on securing cyberspace, whether it be the UNGGE process or the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), seem to be unable to cope with the accelerated developments in cyberspace.

• Cherian Samuel |
• January 16, 2017 |
• Issue Brief

• Cherian Samuel, Munish Sharma |
• 2016 |
• Book

While the Wassenaar Arrangement has instant recall in nuclear circles, it has only recently become a source of turmoil in cybersecurity, after the US Bureau of Industry and Security published rules that are applicable to cyber technologies.

• Cherian Samuel |
• July 20, 2015 |
• IDSA Comments

While Asia is home to the largest number of internet users on the planet, there is comparatively little contribution from the region to the discussions on cybersecurity.

• Cherian Samuel |
• March 31, 2015 |
• IDSA Comments

Effective cybersecurity calls for a close partnership between the government in its role as custodian of the nation’s security, and the private sector, in both roles of information infrastructure provider as well as the provider of many critical services.

• Cherian Samuel |
• December 31, 2014 |
• IDSA Comments

Governments find themselves struggling to deal with the issue of cybersecurity. Given the current state of play in cybersecurity, it is not surprising that any discussion sooner or later ends up as a confusing mix of viewpoints on fundamental rights, privacy, law enforcement, human rights, globalisation and national security, thus leading to a gridlock.

• Cherian Samuel |
• 2014 |
• Monograph

The pressing issues around cyberspace revolve around internet governance, cybersecurity and drawing up rules of the road for the new domain of cyberwar. While each of these is at a different stage in its evolution cycle, cyberspace itself is facing a watershed moment as insecurities mount. The fragmentation of cyberspace seems inevitable unless there is accelerated movement on resolving the fundamental issues of internet governance and cybersecurity that have been hanging fire for well over a decade.

• Arvind Gupta, Cherian Samuel |
• July 2014 |
• Strategic Analysis