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NATO Agrees To New Cyber Defense Policy, Defines Response To Activities Considered ‘Armed Attacks’

NATO Agrees To New Cyber Defense Policy, Defines Response To Activities Considered ‘Armed Attacks’
World leaders gather at the NATO Summit in Brussels on June 14, 2021. Photo: White House.

World leaders at the NATO summit in Brussels on Monday agreed to a new cyber defense policy, the first in seven years, which affirms the alliance’s position that certain adversarial cyber activity may be considered “an armed attack” that would trigger the Article 5 collective defense clause. “We reaffirm that a decision as to when a cyber attack would lead to the invocation of Article 5 would be taken by the North Atlantic Council on a case-by-case basis. Allies recognize…

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