NATO experts suggested equalizing cyber attacks with armed attacks

A group of NATO experts, headed by the US-US-Madeline Olbright, proposed to perceive large-scale hacker attacks on the network of the member countries of the alliance as an armed attack and challenge to all countries at the same time.

This is determined by the 5th article of the Atlantic Charter - a document on the creation of NATO, which entered into force in 1949.

At the nearest summit in Lisbon in November of this year, the allies will decide how strong the cyber falls should be to classify them as armed and responding, reports the weblanet with reference to the British newspaper The Times .

For example, according to the lawyer of the Cybersecurity Center Estonia Estonia Enneken Tikka, it is enough for hackers to damage the networks for the life of infrastructure.

It was Estonia, reminiscent of the publication, became the initiator of the recognition of hacker attacks by a serious crime at the international level. With the support of NATO, the Estonians created the K-5 computer security center, which was fully commissioned in August 2008.

The K-5 team is the basis of 30 specialists who collect and analyze intelligence information on the Internet in order to model possible answers to computer attacks. Such studies correspond to NATO strategies for the development of the concept of electronic war, which considers the information space of both the “parallel battlefield” in future conflicts - both political and military.

Interest in the K-5 system has already shown the command of the alliance, the government of Germany, Spain, Italy, as well as the Finland and Sweden that are not part of NATO.