Security News > 2022 > May > Corporate Involvement in International Cybersecurity Treaties
It's an attempt by the world's governments to come together and create a set of international norms and standards for a reliable, trustworthy, safe, and secure Internet.
As part of the Call, the French company Cigref and the Russian company Kaspersky chaired a working group on cybersecurity processes, along with French research center GEODE. Another working group on international norms was chaired by US company Microsoft and Finnish company F-Secure, along with a University of Florence research center.
Instead of governments coming together to create standards, it is being drive by the very corporations that the new international regulatory climate is supposed to govern.
The international Internet has always relied on what is known as a multistakeholder model, where those who show up and do the work can be more influential than those in charge of governments.
Corporate and government interests dominate, even if the individuals involved use the polite fiction of their own names and personal identities.
The Paris Call isn't the first international agreement that puts companies on an equal signatory footing as governments.