Cybersecurity
After a Year of Silence, Are EU Cyber Sanctions Dead?
The European Union has stopped issuing cyber sanctions, but it's not for lack of new attacks.
Stefan Soesanto is a senior researcher in the Cyberdefense Project with the Risk and Resilience Team at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. Prior to joining CSS, he was the Cybersecurity & Defense Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and a non-resident James A. Kelly Fellow at Pacific Forum CSIS.
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The European Union has stopped issuing cyber sanctions, but it's not for lack of new attacks.
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