Authors :
Kamallini G.
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Volume 10 - 2025, Issue 9 - September
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Abstract :
International conventions are the backbone of our global effort to make cyberspace safer. The internet connects
us all, but it also creates avenues for cybercrime, from fraud and hacking to more insidious threats like child exploitation
and the spread of harmful misinformation. International conventions play a critical yet complex role in the evolving
regulation of cyberspace. Facing a borderless and rapidly advancing digital domain, these agreements strive to establish
common legal frameworks, foster international cooperation, and address transnational cyber threats. A foundational
paradigm for many states, treaties such as the Council of Europe's Budapest Convention on Cybercrime have greatly
standardized national cybercrime legislation and enabled reciprocal legal aid. The UN Convention against Cybercrime, that
was recently adopted, represents an international attempt to create a more thorough and widely recognized framework that
would close current loopholes and improve the exchange of evidence across borders.
The ever-changing nature of cyber technology, conflicting national interests regarding sovereignty and data
governance, the difficulty of attribution of cyberattacks, and the substantial involvement of non-state actors all pose
challenges to the efficacy of these conventions. While these instruments provide essential norms for responsible state
behavior, promote capacity building, and criminalize a range of malicious cyber activities, their implementation often faces
hurdles such as slow ratification, broad definitions, and the need to balance security imperatives with human rights
protections. Ultimately, international conventions serve as crucial, albeit imperfect, mechanisms for building consensus and
legal predictability in a domain that defies traditional geographical and legal boundaries. To sum it up in simpler words it
is the shared rulebooks nations create to tackle online threats that transcending the borders.
Keywords :
International Conventions, Cyber Security, Cyber Space, Treaties.
References :
International conventions are the backbone of our global effort to make cyberspace safer. The internet connects
us all, but it also creates avenues for cybercrime, from fraud and hacking to more insidious threats like child exploitation
and the spread of harmful misinformation. International conventions play a critical yet complex role in the evolving
regulation of cyberspace. Facing a borderless and rapidly advancing digital domain, these agreements strive to establish
common legal frameworks, foster international cooperation, and address transnational cyber threats. A foundational
paradigm for many states, treaties such as the Council of Europe's Budapest Convention on Cybercrime have greatly
standardized national cybercrime legislation and enabled reciprocal legal aid. The UN Convention against Cybercrime, that
was recently adopted, represents an international attempt to create a more thorough and widely recognized framework that
would close current loopholes and improve the exchange of evidence across borders.
The ever-changing nature of cyber technology, conflicting national interests regarding sovereignty and data
governance, the difficulty of attribution of cyberattacks, and the substantial involvement of non-state actors all pose
challenges to the efficacy of these conventions. While these instruments provide essential norms for responsible state
behavior, promote capacity building, and criminalize a range of malicious cyber activities, their implementation often faces
hurdles such as slow ratification, broad definitions, and the need to balance security imperatives with human rights
protections. Ultimately, international conventions serve as crucial, albeit imperfect, mechanisms for building consensus and
legal predictability in a domain that defies traditional geographical and legal boundaries. To sum it up in simpler words it
is the shared rulebooks nations create to tackle online threats that transcending the borders.
Keywords :
International Conventions, Cyber Security, Cyber Space, Treaties.
