Russia’s International Strategies for Information Security

Cyberspace security is one of the new fields in international security which has become a common and increasing concern of technical, legal, political and security experts, and internal and external players, and therefore has found a special significant place in national security and international security discourse. The governments, as the first receivers of international security and the most important followers of international law, have established various plans and policies to tackle this new security challenge. Since the traditional borders are removed in cyberspace, the principle of un-dividability of security is proven more than any other time, and the governments have come to the conclusion that it is unlikely, even impossible, to secure internal cyberspace without regarding its international transformations. Among the strategies, suggestions and plans offered internationally to secure the cyberspace Russia’s international initiatives are more conspicuous. Russia is one of the pioneers in this field and has suggested some plans and projects from 1998, i.e. the beginnings of cyberspace growth and international increase in the number of cyber users including: Resolutions on Cyber Information Security, Information Security Ethics, and Draft Convention on International Information Security. Our country’s diplomatic system has not reacted in an acceptable way in interacting with diplomatic transformations in cyber field and deciding on appropriate cyber diplomacy, especially in regards with Russia’s suggested plans. Our diplomatic system is more or less principally ignorant of the novel and important area of cyber, especially its diplomatic aspect. This paper will also study Tehran’s practical weakness of foreign policy about cyberspace.