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By SecureWorld News Team
Mon | Jun 14, 2021 | 9:22 AM PDT

At the G7 summit in Cornwall, United Kingdom, global leaders shared four things they want to accomplish around cyberspace and cybersecurity.

Will the nations make progress on this during the coming year? Are they the best priorities and the things that cyberspace needs right now? 

Decide for yourself after you read these statements coming out of the G7 summit.

World leaders make 4 key statements about cybersecurity 

1. They are still pushing for norms in cyber, like a digital Geneva Convention:

"We commit to work together to further a common understanding of how existing international law applies to cyberspace and welcome the work of our Foreign Ministers to promote this approach at the UN and other international fora."

2. Ransomware gets a specific mention: 

"We also commit to work together to urgently address the escalating shared threat from criminal ransomware networks. We call on all states to urgently identify and disrupt ransomware criminal networks operating from within their borders, and hold those networks accountable for their actions."

3. Supply chain security: 

"Securing supply chains. Recognising the foundational role that telecommunications infrastructure, including 5G and future communication technologies, plays and will play in underpinning our wider digital and ICT infrastructure we will promote secure, resilient, competitive, transparent, and sustainable and diverse digital, telecoms, and ICT infrastructure supply chains."

4. Adding cyber to the list of Russian misdeeds 

"In particular, we call on Russia to urgently investigate and credibly explain the use of a chemical weapon on its soil, to end its systematic crackdown on independent civil society and media, and to identify, disrupt, and hold to account those within its borders who conduct ransomware attacks, abuse virtual currency to launder ransoms, and other cybercrimes."

Related podcast: should you pay a ransomware demand? 

[Picture credit: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street ]

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