In this day and age, conflicts between countries now often take place not through physical means but rather through the cyberspace. The French government, in 2018, developed The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace, which is an initiative to provide enhanced security and stability on the Internet against ransomware attacks as well as the online meddling with the elections at the time. Through the Paris Call, there will be “working groups” established in order to develop better software products as well as maintain a safe environment within the cyberspace itself. Finally in early November, the United States joined the agreement formed between 80 different countries when Vice President Harris announced for our country’s support. This was arguably quite a long awaited development seeing as the Trump administration had originally refused to sign the agreement. However, Harris announced potential future collaborative efforts with France in order to be able to work on improving the cyberspace together. The U.S. decision to join the agreement has also been seen as the government’s attempt to retaliate against Eastern European and Russian hackers who have compromised U.S. companies. Nonetheless, experts say that in order to sustain our progress in countering hackers and attackers, the government will need to thoroughly eliminate safe havens for these cybercriminal groups and organizations and be adamant in doing so.
