Legal Concerns

The development of a good legal framework is perhaps the single most pressing need within the domain of computer network defence.  The technical challenges are difficult enough, but investigating and prosecuting cyber criminals has proven to be extraordinarily difficult for law enforcement.

Traditional skills are inadequate, and it is difficult to retain employees with highly marketable technical knowledge.  The international, maze-like architecture of the Internet offers smart attackers a high degree of anonymity, and the plausible deniability gained from proxy-hopping and cyber spoofing serves to slow investigations to a crawl.

The CCD CoE, through ground-breaking research, writing, and educational forums, is helping to solve a wide range of legal questions related to cyber security issues.

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