| Summary: | This paper focuses on key economic and social factors underpinning worldwide issues around
cybersecurity and, identifies a new agenda for addressing these issues that is being shaped by the
Internet and related information and communication technologies, such as social media. All actors
in the widening ecology of the Internet require a better social and cultural understanding of
cybersecurity issues in order to effectively engage all relevant stakeholders in processes aimed at
enhancing cybersecurity. The problems tied to cybersecurity are not new, but as the Internet
becomes ever more essential to everyday life and work, and empowers users as never before, there
are new social and economic aspects of the challenges to achieving a secure, open and global
Internet that require much more focused attention. For years, computer scientists and engineers
have recognized that cybersecurity is not merely an engineering and computer science problem,
but also an economic and behavioral challenge. But recognition of the fact that cybersecurity
cannot be successfully addressed with technical solutions alone, is not sufficient. It is critical that
economists and other social and behavioral scientists engage in this area and address the practices
of a wider range of actors in local and global arenas who need strategies that provide feasible and
practical steps for securing the Internet and the incentives and mindsets to take them.
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