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

Bauer, Johannes M. ; Dutton, William H.

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: cybersecurity;    ICT;    internet regulation;    e-business;    privacy;   

RP-ID  :  102965

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper focuses on key economic and social factors underpinning worldwide issues aroundcybersecurity and, identifies a new agenda for addressing these issues that is being shaped by theInternet and related information and communication technologies, such as social media. All actorsin the widening ecology of the Internet require a better social and cultural understanding ofcybersecurity issues in order to effectively engage all relevant stakeholders in processes aimed atenhancing cybersecurity. The problems tied to cybersecurity are not new, but as the Internetbecomes ever more essential to everyday life and work, and empowers users as never before, thereare new social and economic aspects of the challenges to achieving a secure, open and globalInternet that require much more focused attention. For years, computer scientists and engineershave 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 cybersecuritycannot be successfully addressed with technical solutions alone, is not sufficient. It is critical thateconomists and other social and behavioral scientists engage in this area and address the practicesof a wider range of actors in local and global arenas who need strategies that provide feasible andpractical steps for securing the Internet and the incentives and mindsets to take them.