Transatlantic Cooperation in Cybersecurity: Converging on Security as Resilience?

Cybersecurity is a global challenge (see Chapter 3) that requires international collaboration and partnership with key actors and organisations if it is to be addressed effectively. In this context, a European Union (EU) priority within its cybersecurity strategy is to establish a coherent international cyberspace policy and to promote and project EU core values for cyberspace. The EU’s cybersecurity strategy (EUCSS) states that its international cyberspace policy ‘will be aimed at increased engagement and stronger relations with key international partners and organisations, as well as with civil society and the private sector’ and that at ‘bilateral level, cooperation with the United States is particularly important and will be further developed’, notably in the context of the EU-US Working Group on Cyber-Security and Cyber-Crime (European Commission 2011; EU Cybersecurity Strategy 2013, p.15). Indeed the Working Group was established to ‘tackle new threats to the global networks upon which the security and the prosperity of our free society increasingly depend’ (Joint Statement of the EU-US Summit 2010).