In light of Russia’s cyberwar in Ukraine, the prime minister of Estonia outlines “four things of which we need to take note, and four things all free nations must do” in a guest essay
Security Council meeting on cyber-security. Almost everyone at the meeting stressed what all states have already agreed: international law, including theEight months later, Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and violated every rule in the book. For years, we had heard predictions that the next big war would be a kind of cyber-Armageddon. But instead, Russia brought back large-scale conventional war.
Second, having a well-protected digital infrastructure is crucial. Ukraine’s digital backbone has enabled the state to keep delivering services online during the war. Many Russian cyber-attacks have failed because Ukraine had spent years building up cyber-resilience, with help from Estonia and others, and has now had extensive wartime assistance. And now it has lessons to teach us.
In the light of all this, what should democratic nations do? First, we must all be prepared for cyber-warfare to continue even after the conventional war ends, and to invest appropriately. The security environment has changed, and we must all adapt. As highly digitalised societies, we need to make sure that public services remain available and data are kept safe. To that end, last year Estonia nearly doubled its annual cyber-security budget.
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