Pandemic forcing nations to develop newer frameworks for cybersecurity

Technology should find a way to identify actors who violate Internet norms: Cerf

Worldwide, nations have been forced to introduce legal frameworks and regulations to ensure cyber sovereignty for themselves and data security and privacy for their netizens, after the pandemic-triggered a data deluge on the Internet which dramatically increased vulnerabilities to cyberattacks, said legal luminaries and cyber experts who spoke online at an international conference on Cyberlaw, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity that concluded on Friday.

Technology should find a way to accurately identify actors who violate the norms of the Internet and infringe upon personal data privacy and governmental security and sovereignty, said Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google.

“It is critical that we have a way to identify people who violate the rules of the Internet, the data super highway,” said Mr. Cerf, who is considered one of the ‘fathers of the Internet’. “It could be something like a driving license, and violations are trackable and violators are easily identifiable,” he added.