
NUPI's Centre for Cyber Security Studies
Through NUPI's Centre for Cyber Security Studies we seek to bridge the gap between the technical community and the policy world with research focusing primarily on the political dimension of cybersecurity. With a focus on the role of cybersecurity in international relations we track new developments in cybersecurity, and provide academic studies, expert analysis and strategic policy recommendations. The research focus includes theories of cybersecurity, global governance of cyberspace, capacity building, development, and the security vs. freedom dilemma.
We seek to enhance the understanding of today’s increased dependency on a functional cyberspace and what this entails in terms of vulnerabilities, crime and conflict. We have several ongoing and finished projects that address these issues. The goal of the GAIA project (funded by the Research Council of Norway's IKTPLUSS initiative) is to increase the knowledge on digital value chains and what challenges they bring, to draw links between digital value chains, national autonomy and international politics. This is a four-year cooperation between SimulaMet, NUPI and several other institutions and organizations. Protecting Democracies from Digital Threats looks at novel ways of subverting democratic processes through digital means, and different approaches to mitigate this threat.
Of our finished projects Digital Attacks Against the Norwegian Petroleum Sector explored the digital threats towards the petroleum sector and how to respond to them, while the recently finished Upholding the NATO Cyber Pledge examined if and how deterrence works in the cyber domain. Another area of focus is on International governance and regulation, with particular emphasis on the private sector and the dependence on them to providing cyber security nationally and internationally. Cybersecurity and Developing Countries aimed to systematically explore cybersecurity risks and assess cyber capacity building in developing countries. The aim was to provide a critical analysis of how to actually accomplish cyber capacity building in practice. Read the article The Cyber Frontier and Digital Pitfalls in the Global South published in Third World Quarterly (2018). Critical Digital Infrastructures examined how states approach the issue of public-private cooperation and transnational dependencies for their critical infrastructures,
Through our extensive international and national network within cybersecurity we work with a wide range of global partners such as the Global Forum of Cyber Expertise, and the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at the University of Oxford, as well as with governments, military, international organizations, and the private sector. NUPI organizes several seminars and events aimed at enhancing public awareness and knowledge of the various challenges associated with cyber security in Norway as well as internationally.
Our researchers on cyber security are Niels Nagelhus Schia, Lars Gjesvik, Karsten Friis, Ole Willers, Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud and Erik Kursetgjerde
Through our extensive international and national network within cybersecurity we work with a wide range of global partners such as the Global Forum of Cyber Expertise, and the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at the University of Oxford, as well as with governments, military, international organizations, and the private sector. NUPI is a member of the Cybil portal on cyber capacity building and organizes several seminars and events aimed at enhancing public awareness and knowledge of the various challenges associated with cyber security in Norway as well as internationally.
News
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Podcast: Giving Chinese tech giants access to Europe - what are the consequences?
7 Feb 2019Are we ready for the implications of giving Chinese tech giant access to European markets? -
Prestigious project to NUPI on digitalization and the modern world order
26 Oct 2018New project to investigate vulnerabilities on the Internet and political consequences. -
Cyberattacks: How to protect critical infrastructure?
7 Sep 2018Michael Chertoff, former United States Secretary of Homeland Security, shares his insights on cybersecurity in a new NUPI podcast episode. -
PODCAST: Cyberspace, international norms, and a new initiative in the UN?
23 May 2018In this NUPI podcast, cyber-expert Karsten Geier proposes a new way forward. -
PODCAST: How to govern cyberspace?
13 Dec 2017Marina Kaljurand shares five lessons from the aftermath of the 2007 cyber attacks on Estonia. -
President of Estonia on cyber security
18 Oct 2017What does Estonia see as the most pressing challenges to the global stability of cyber space? -
Upholding the NATO cyber pledge
11 May 2017Cyber Deterrence and Resilience: Dilemmas in NATO defence and security politics.- Dr. Tim Stevens
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An unsecure web of things
24 Mar 2017How do you know if your new TV with an integrated camera is secure? -
The cyber-frontier
10 Aug 2016How does digitalization lead to new kinds of global connections and disconnections in the developing countries? And which role does digitalization play for the UN's sustainable... -
Conflict in Cyber Space
26 Apr 2016The rapid digitalization of today’s societies means that we are increasingly dependent upon a functional and stable cyber space.
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Projects
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Photo: NTB Scanpix Research project
Digital sovereignty and autonomy (GAIA)
2019 - 2022 (Ongoing)NUPI in collaboration with Simula Research Lab will map global data flows and their impact on national autonomy and sovereignty.
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Foto: NTB Scanpix Research project
Critical Digital Infrastructures (KRIDI)
2018 - 2019 (Completed)Protecting critical infrastructures from digital threats is a key challenge for modern states, how should the state approach and make sense of the security of privately owned infrastructures?
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Foto: NTB Scanpix Research project
Protecting Democracies from Digital Threats (PRODEM)
2019 (Completed)How are states responding to the threat of using digital technologies to subvert democratic processes?
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Science, technology and warfare of the future
2018 - 2020 (Ongoing)How does technology help to change how we percieve the world and how to act in it?
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Countering Hybrid Warfare (Multinational Capability Development Campaign) (MCDC (CHW))
2013 - 2019 (Ongoing)NUPI leads an international project on how to counter hybrid warfare.
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Cybersecurity Capacity Building 2.0 - Bridging the digital divide and strengthening sustainable development
2016 - 2018 (Completed)This project will study cybersecurity capacity building (CCB) and the sustainability of development processes in developing countries.
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Digital Attacks against the Norwegian Petroleum Sector (DISP)
2017 - 2018 (Completed)This project is mapping the threats and the historical usage of digital weapons against critical infrastructures, as well as examining the problems arising from unclear responsibilities in responding to...
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Upholding the NATO cyber pledge: What does cyber deterrence and cyber resilience mean for NATO and Norway?
2017 (Completed)The aim of this project is to explore how and to what extent deterrence works in cyberspace or whether a focus on resilience as the new strategic logic is the way forward.
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Cybersecurity Capacity Building (CCB)
2014 - 2015 (Completed)The project aims to systematically explore cyber security risks in developing countries