Russia and the United States will expand cooperation in the virtual space
A White House spokeswoman said Friday that the United States and Russia are planning a constant exchange of information about "technical threats" that may come from users of the two countries. This cooperation will take place even despite the rather tense relations between the states.According to the representative of the Council for nat. Caitlin Hayden’s security plans in the near future to create a number of mechanisms that will help create an atmosphere of trust, as well as prevent a crisis to eliminate “disturbing incidents” in the virtual space.
The mechanisms include “continuous exchange of data on those. threats that may emanate from the territories of both countries ”, as well as“ uninterrupted communication tools to create an atmosphere of trust as well as to prevent the development of a crisis, ”Ms. Hayden responded to an inquiry in an e-mail.
Similar connections between states have existed for many years. For example, the Center for the reduction of nuclear danger. “The mechanisms created will relate exclusively to the virtual space. Together with Moscow, they will be launched for the first time, ”Hayden said. However, she did not specify when the project will start working.
The representative of the Russian Embassy in Washington did not answer the phone call, and the situation was not commented on.
In November, Joe Biden, the vice president of the United States, said that the United States was working with Moscow to join efforts in response to cyber-incident, nuclear threat reduction centers, and to establish communication lines in the event of "alarming incidents."
“It is much more difficult to evaluate the virtual power of the state than, for example, to calculate the amount of it tanks”, He said on November 1 at the London conference on cyberspace.
White House Security Program Coordinator for Cyberspace Howard Schmidt 12 July wrote in his blog that by the end of December Russia and the United States are planning to introduce three types of collaborative security mechanisms in cyberspace. These mechanisms will include special communication channels "24 / 7".
Hayden refused to comment on the status of negotiations with the Russian Federation, limiting herself only to a statement about "ongoing diplomatic negotiations." To date, according to her, such relations with China or another country do not exist.
Tensions in relations between Moscow and Washington connected with the controversial Russian parliamentary elections threaten the policy of restarting Barack Obama. Also, countries did not agree on the deployment of Euro-PRO systems.
Another sore point is the report to the US Intelligence Services Congress in October. It said that Russian intelligence services "are holding events to collect economic information, as well as technology data on some US facilities."
“We conclude that the governments of Russia and China will remain effective and aggressive collectors of economic strategic information, as well as technology data. This is especially true in the field of cyberspace, ”the head of the national office said. United States counterintelligence services.
Schmidt did not mention in his blog about attempts to reduce the risk of espionage, but rather talked about detecting these threats for both countries as botnets that consist of a chain of computers and can be used to crash websites for incoming traffic or for other malicious purposes.
Another task he said was the desire to better understand the views of both countries on work in the virtual space militarily.
Schmidt wrote then: "This is the main example of the fact that the reset of a relationship is moving into a new, more important dimension."
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