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PROJECT ON CYBER WAR AND PEACE

This project analyses key policy challenges and controversies in the area of cyber war and peace. Professor Greg Austin is our senior adviser on this work. Some of his publications are referenced at the bottom of this page,  including authored or edited books, and a number of authored and co-authored articles, papers and book chapters. 

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Project Launch: Australia India Joint Technology Assessment for Peace and Stability

On 29 November, the Australian National University and InKlude Labs hosted a launch event for an ambitious new project in Australia India relations, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, under the Australia India Cyber and Critical Technologies Partnership.  The launch was supported by the Social Cyber Institute which contributed to development of the project. All six Australian participants are associated with the Institute. Read our Project Scope briefing note here.  See the video of our project launch at this link.

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New Discussion Paper: Australia’s Cyber Surge

The new Institute discussion paper from Greg Austin  is at this link. The press release with a summary of key points is here. In March 2022, Australia announced the biggest expansion and upgrade of its cyber capabilities for national security and intelligence at any time since creation of its national-level signals intelligence organisation in 1947. In political terms, there were likely three main geopolitical motivations or drivers for the Australian cyber surge: containing foreign interference in Australia, the need to deliver new levels of cyber operations as part of the AUKUS reorientation and strategic uplift, and the government’s exaggerated view of deteriorating strategic circumstances in the Indo-Pacific.

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International Webinar: Cyber Resilience Lessons from the Russia/Ukraine War (Webinar)

The webinar featured Professor Andrii Paziuk who draws on the 2024 report he coordinated, A Decade in the Trenches of Cyberwarfare:  Ukraine’s Story of Resilience. The report was published by the Cyber Diia Platform, a non-profit public association that combines the expertise and resources of various civil organizations, research and academic institutions, companies, and international partners. Commentary on the presentation is provided by Professor Ganna Pogrebna, Executive Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Cyberfutures Institute in Sydney, and a co-author of the report.

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International Webinar: information warfare
On 25 July, Professor Dan Svantesson of Bond University and Professor Mathieu O'Neil of Canberra University led a webinar on Australia's readiness to defeat information warfare. Watch video recording 
here. Svantesson presentation here. O'Neil presentation here​​.

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​Crowdsourcing an Australian cyber intelligence and information militia 

Professor Dan Jerker B. Svantesson​

June 2024 Paper is at this link.

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Cyber Capabilities and National Power (Volume 2)

IISS - 7 September 2023: Greg Austin, Saskia van Genugten, Julia Voo

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Russia, Ukraine and offensive cyber options

IISS - 24 February 2022: Greg Austin, Nadya Kostyuk, Eneken Tikk, James Crabtree

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Cyber Capabilities and National Power: A Net Assessment

IISS - 30 June 2021: Greg Austin, Gil Baram, Elina Noor, James Crabtree

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China's weak cyber defences

IISS - 3 June 2020, Greg Austin, Simone Dossi, Tim Huxley

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US coercive cyber campaigns: methodology and assessment

IISS - 20 November 2020, Greg Austin, Max Smeets, Franz-Stefan Gady

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​Related publications on cyber war and conflict by Professor Greg Austin, the project coordinator in SCI, are listed below. For a selection of videos with Professor Austin, go to this other page.

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