National Cyber Emergencies: The Return to Civil Defence

In 2019 and 2020, sixteen Australian and international researchers looked closely at the subject of civil defence from the perspective of  cyber emergencies in Australia, Europe, Israel, Canada and the US.

They held a conference funded by #UNSW Canberra and published a book on "National Cyber Emergencies: The Return to Civil Defence". Several of the contributors are from the Social Cyber Institute.

This book was among the first to address policy for the recently minted concept of “national cyber emergency” as it had been framed by several leading governments beginning in 2015 and 2016. It examined closely the concept of cyber civil defence both from an Australian perspective and an historical angle. It concluded that the idea of civil defence is increasingly relevant for analysing new collective responses to national cyber emergencies which give the private sector, community groups, and

citizens a bigger role in national responses. The book also looked at cyber #profed options, especially simulations.

The Table of Contents may be worth a fresh look:

1. "From Cyber Resilience to Civil Defence: Contested Concepts, Elusive Goals" Greg Austin and Munish Sharma, PhD 

2. "U.S. Policy: From Cyber Incidents to National Emergencies" Greg Austin

3. "India and China: Warnings Ignored" Munish Sharma

4. "Civil Defence and Cyber Security: A European Perspective" Eneken Tikk

5. "National Cyber Emergency Policy for Australia: Critical Infrastructure" Gary Waters

6. "Mind the Gap: Western Military Theory of Victory vs Cyber Attack" 🇮🇱 Lior Tabansky

7. "Weaponised Information Systems for Political Disruption" Kevin Desouza and Atif Ahmad

8. "Dezinformatsiya: Recognising the National Cyber Emergency in Australia" Christopher Dufour, Timothy N. and Rachel Azafrani

9. "Alliance Attribution of Global Cyber Attacks: The European Union" Siim Alatalu

10. "Preparing for the Cyber Storm: A Survey of Simulation" Sylvain P. Leblanc and Tayler Perkins

11. "Wargaming National Cyber Emergencies" John Curry

12. "Enhancing Strategic Level Wargaming with Artificial Intelligence" Jim Q. Chen

13. "Design It, Build It, Defend It–Using Cyber Exercises in the Education of Cyber Forces" Scott Knight, Sylvain Leblanc, Erich Devendorf, and Mike Shuck