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State involvement in cyber defence may be a mixed blessing

Calls for more national efforts in cyber defence are being answered, with governments around the world taking the lead in protecting national industry and infrastructure from online attack – but the results may not be quite what the industry had hoped

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Almost three decades ago, the US sociologist and historian Charles Tilly published his highly regarded essay, War making and state making as organised crime – drawing a disturbingly close parallel between the nascent states of early modern Europe and the operations of present-day gangsters and protection racketeers. The early states succeeded, he wrote, because of their ability to ‘nationalise'

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Emerging trends in op risk

Karen Man, partner and member of the global financial institutions leadership team at Baker McKenzie, discusses emerging op risks in the wake of the Covid‑19 pandemic, a rise in cyber attacks, concerns around conduct and culture, and the complexities of…

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