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Cybersecurity

Tim Stevens on cyberwar

by Jerry Brito on June 28, 2010 View Comments

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Tim Stevens, PhD candidate in the Dept. of War Studies, King’s College London, where he researches the politics of cybersecurity and cyberwarfare, and regular contributor to The Guardian, Forbes’ cybersecurity blog The Firewall, and Current Intelligence discusses cyberwar. Stevens talks about the current cybersecurity climate; nuances between cyberespionage, cybercrime, and cyberwar; the balance between roles of government and private sector; and differences in cybersecurity attitudes in the U.K. and the U.S.

The end of anonymity

by Massimiliano Trovato on May 10, 2010 View Comments

Lawmakers all over the world have been trying to criminalize anonymous access to the internet. In fact, this is both undesirable and unfeasible.

“Fair Trade” branding for cyber security

by Tate Watkins on May 4, 2010 View Comments

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Cyber security branding à la Fair Trade: the FCC seeks to certify communication services providers, allowing them to market their security as FCC approved.

Evgeny Morozov on democracy, the limits of social networks, and cybersecurity

by Jerry Brito on April 12, 2010 View Comments

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Evgeny Morozov, Yahoo! Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and contributing editor for Foreign Policy, discusses the limits of social networks in promoting democracy. The discussion also turns to Morozov’s experience as a promoter of online freedom in Eastern Europe and cybersecurity.

Why cybersecurity is not a public good

by Tate Watkins on April 5, 2010 View Comments

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Cybersecurity is not a public good, at least not in the true economic definition, nor as national defense is one.

Zombies, secondary effects, and instituitions

by Tate Watkins on April 1, 2010 View Comments

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Online attacks illuminate the negative externalities that result from a lack of cybersecurity. But private defenders acting within the proper institutional structure might be best equipped and motivated to mitigate the externalities efficiently and effectively.

Tech immunization: Cybersecurity and vaccines

by Tate Watkins on March 24, 2010 View Comments

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Is cybersecurity protection essentially a vaccine for computers?

Reengineering the Internet for cybersecurity?

by Jerry Brito on March 1, 2010 View Comments

McConnell: “we need to reengineer the Internet to make attribution, geolocation, intelligence analysis and impact assessment more manageable.