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One year after its launch, Paris' call for cyber security has collected 73 state signatures, and 1,038 in total with those of companies and NGOs.
" We have more than doubled the number of supporters, " said Tuesday, November 12 the French Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Jean - Baptiste Lemoyne at a round table of the World Forum on Peace . " Fourteen of the 25 countries currently trying to discuss an international code of good conduct in cyberspace at the UN have signed the call, " said Microsoft's vice president for European affairs, John Franck, in a statement. the same round table. In total, the Paris appeal collected 73 State signatures, and 1,038 in total with those of companies and NGOs.
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Launched in November 2018 on the initiative of France but also of large companies like Microsoft, the call from Paris aims to prevent cyberspace from turning into a dangerous West, where cybercriminals but also states and their cyber-fighters would pose a permanent danger for businesses and civil society.
Nine general principles
It sets nine general principles that signatories undertake to respect in cyberspace: protection of the public heart of the Internet, defense of electoral processes, non-proliferation of malicious software ... The signatories of the call are now striving to respect to find a concrete translation of these principles, a spur of international discussions under way at the UN.
The Paris appeal is supported by European states, Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Australia, a dozen Latin American countries and ten African countries. But the heavyweights of cyberspace, such as the United States, China and Russia among others, are still missing. In the United States, Virginia, Colorado, or Washington state, however, signed the Paris call, as did the Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei or several Russian companies such as Kaspersky.
( With AFP )