Banks Talks to New York Observer About NATO, Cyberwarfare

February 25, 2022

New York Observer

William C. Banks

Public Administration & International Affairs Department

Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy & Law

Cybersecurity

NATO

Russia

Ukraine

New York Observer

William C. Banks

The use of cyberwafare in Russia's invasion of Ukraine raises the question of whether NATO's rules for collective self-defense should change to include cyber attacks. Professor Emeritus William Banks says NATO lacks a universal definition of what, precisely, constitutes a cyber attack. “A sound approach is to look at effects,” Banks says. “If the effects of a cyber attack approach the effects of a kinetic attack, that crosses the threshold. Stuxnet is the easy case.” Read more in the New York Observer article, "Russia’s Invasion Puts NATO On Guard for Cyberwarfare."