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White House and Department of Defense Announce Strategies to Promote Cybersecurity, Including Strengthening Norms Affecting Internet Security

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2011

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References

1 International Strategy For Cyberspace, May 2011, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_ viewer/international_strategy_for_cyberspace.pdf; see Cooper, Helene, U.S. Calls for Global Cybersecurity Strategy, N.Y. Times, May 17, 2011 Google Scholar, at A11; Nakashima, Ellen, White House Outlines Cybersecurity Strategy, Wash. Post, May 17, 2011 Google Scholar, at A4.

2 International Strategy, supra note 1, at 9-10.

3 Nakashima, Ellen & Wan, William, China’s Denials on Cyberattacks Undercut, Wash. Post, Aug. 25, 2011 Google Scholar, at A12; Harlan, Chico & Nakashima, Ellen, Suspected N. Korean Net Attack Raises Fears, Wash. Post, Aug. 30, 2011 Google Scholar, at A1.

4 Shanker, Thom & Bumiller, Elisabeth, After Suffering Damaging Cyberattack, the Pentagon Takes Defensive Action, N.Y. Times, July 15, 2011 Google Scholar, at A6.

5 [Editor’s Note: See Sanger, David E. & Bumiller, Elisabeth, Pentagon to Consider Cyberattacks Acts of War, N.Y. Times, June 1, 2011 Google Scholar, at A10J

6 International Strategy, supra note 1, at 14.

7 Nakashima, Ellen, Pentagon to Outline Cybersecurity Strategy That Offers More Tools, Wash. Post, July 14, 2011 Google Scholar, at A6; Shanker & Bumiller, supra note 4.

8 Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III, Remarks on the Department of Defense Cyber Strategy, July 14, 2011, at http://www.defense.gov/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=1593. A high-ranking military officer appeared to take a somewhat different tack, calling for improved measures to penalize attackers instead of excessive reliance on defensive measures. Ellen Nakashima, U.S. Cyber Approach “Too Predictable, “Wash. Post, July 15, 2011, at A2.