The New Cybersecurity Agenda : Economic and Social Challenges to a Secure Internet

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 wi...

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Main Authors:	Bauer, Johannes M., Dutton, William H.
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	cybersecurity ICT internet regulation e-business privacy internet service providers software vendors
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23641

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spelling	okr-10986-236412021-04-23T14:04:16Z The New Cybersecurity Agenda : Economic and Social Challenges to a Secure Internet Bauer, Johannes M. Dutton, William H. cybersecurity ICT internet regulation e-business privacy internet service providers software vendors 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. 2016-01-14T17:36:52Z 2016-01-14T17:36:52Z 2015-06-02 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23641 en_US WDR 2016 Background Paper; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research
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description	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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author	Bauer, Johannes M. Dutton, William H.
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title	The New Cybersecurity Agenda : Economic and Social Challenges to a Secure Internet
title_short	The New Cybersecurity Agenda : Economic and Social Challenges to a Secure Internet
title_full	The New Cybersecurity Agenda : Economic and Social Challenges to a Secure Internet
title_fullStr	The New Cybersecurity Agenda : Economic and Social Challenges to a Secure Internet
title_full_unstemmed	The New Cybersecurity Agenda : Economic and Social Challenges to a Secure Internet
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The New Cybersecurity Agenda : Economic and Social Challenges to a Secure Internet

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