Location: Leiden University, Campus Den Haag, Wijnhaven - room 3.60, Turfmarkt 99, The Hague
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Registration: free, via email (info@thehaguecybernorms.nl)

Given the highly competitive economic environment within which they operate, companies have increasingly sought to steal the confidential business information of their foreign rivals. This practice is known as industrial espionage and its occurrence within the world order has grown exponentially since the dawn of cyberspace. This paper pursues two arguments. First, this paper maintains that industrial cyber espionage compromises the financial security of the victim company which, in turn, undermines the economic security of the host state. As such, industrial cyber espionage can be construed as a threat to the victim state's national security. Second, this paper investigates the role of international law in dampening and suppressing this threat. In particular, it examines the extent to which the international law principle of due diligence requires states to take measures to prevent companies within the jurisdiction from engaging in industrial cyber espionage against foreign competitors.