Cybersecurity & Emerging Threats

Interface’s work on cybersecurity and emerging threats comprises three workstreams:

German Cybersecurity Policy

In terms of German cybersecurity policy, interface pursues the goal of supporting politicians in pursuing empirically based, better policies. For this purpose, it provides various types of analyses and handouts, such as a mapping of German cybersecurity actors and policy analyses. Furthermore, interface contributes to the enhancement of expertise in various target groups, including government employees, students and journalists and the exchange of knowledge between experts of the cybersecurity policy community. In addition, interface takes an active role in public debates in order to set thematic priorities and to introduce new ideas to the media discourse.

Transatlantic Cybersecurity Policy

In January 2017, interface founded the “Transatlantic Cyber Forum” (TCF). The TCF is an intersectoral, transatlantic cybersecurity expert network with 150 members from civil society, academia, industry, and governments. The TCF constitutes working groups on current issues of transatlantic cybersecurity policy, which aim to develop concrete policy recommendations within a time frame of eleven months.

Please find more information on current working groups and the TCF here.

Conflict Mitigation

Interface is implementing the project “Cyber Confidence-Building Measures: The Scope and Success Factors of Practical Implementation” funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF). Even though cyber confidence-building measures (CBMs) are one of the main instruments of multilateral cooperation within cyber diplomacy it remains understudied. Thus, this project aims to map regional development and applications of CBMs and identify success factors and challenges for implementing them. This project is funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF).