Unilateral Remedies to Cyber Operations by Henning Lahmann - 9781108479868

Unilateral Remedies to Cyber OperationsSelf-Defence, Countermeasures, Necessity, and the Question of Attribution\nAuthor(s): Henning Lahmann\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108479868, 978-1108479868\nSynopsis\nAddressing both scholars of international law and political science as well as decision makers involved in cybersecurity policy, the book tackles the most important and intricate legal issues that a state faces when considering a reaction to a malicious cyber operation conducted by an adversarial state. While often invoked in political debates and widely analysed in international legal scholarship, self-defence and countermeasures will often remain unavailable to states in situations of cyber emergency due to the pervasive problem of reliable and timely attribution of cyber operations to state actors. Analysing the legal questions surrounding attribution in detail, the book presents the .