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ZEK’s Daniel Garrie Co-Authors Article in Harvard National Security Journal on Corporate Responses to State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks

On December 17, 2015, the Harvard National Security Journal published an article co-authored by ZEK’s Daniel B. Garrie, entitled “So You’re Telling Me There’s A Chance: How The Articles On State Responsibility Could Empower Corporate Responses To State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks.”

In the article, Mr. Garrie estimates that $9 trillion to $21 trillion of economic-value creation, worldwide, could be destroyed over the next five to seven years, depends on the robustness of the cybersecurity environment. From that starting point, his article provides a brief summary of the international legal framework that regulates state interactions; the legal authority for government sanctioned corporate countermeasures, as well as the limitation on these actions; and the reasons that targeted states need to invoke this legal framework, and how to limit the countermeasures that follow. The article concludes with a recommendation that host states, despite the associated risks with such a decision, empower victimized corporations with the authority to use countermeasures in response to hostile state cyber activity.

The article can be found at the following web address: http://harvardnsj.org/2015/12/so-youre-telling-me-theres-a-chance-how-the-articles-on-state-responsibility-could-empower-corporate-responses-to-state-sponsored-cyber-attacks

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Attorney Daniel B. Garrie