As cyber mediation and arbitration expands quickly, the risks of information leakage and/or non-authenticated access (transmittal, harvesting, archiving) grows exponentially too. Therefore, mediation and arbitration instruments (agreements and actions), should comprise standardized secure procedures of the digital information (and its final users) at the heart of the dispute.

Nowadays, virtually all commercial disputes are in a form of digital information (over 90% of all case supporting documentation is in digital form). Digital information practically replaced papers: it can be exhibited (and different drafts worked/ amended) at no time and no costs in numerous places at once. It’s easier to lose or alter, and hence harder to restrict and control circle of users.

Mediation and arbitration of disputes involving suspected theft of trade secrets, breaches of contracts that require compliance with an information security protocols (or standards where applicable) – all them usually arise from a data breach or cyberattack. Same applies to the disputes between litigation support entities, advisers and law firms, or conflicts as to cyber risk insurance coverage of a particular event.

How to secure the often highly sensitive information from the parties? What are the self-inflicted or expected ethical, and prescribed legal obligations, cybersecurity, cyber-authentication, encryption of the information (including its dissemination, exchange, harvesting and archiving) – will be discussed in this lecture. It will start with the theoretical background on cyber space, cyber wrongdoings and crimes, as well as the international and regional institutions and instruments in this respect.

The Presenter is a professor of international law with over 1,200 hours of teaching on the subject of international law on three continents. He is also author of the topic-related book Cybersecurity Essentials – Institutions, Instruments, Types and Forms, (NOVA Science Publishers, 2015)

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