Cyber-secure, resilient energy is paramount to the prosperity of the United States. As the experience and sophistication of cyber adversaries grow, so too must the US power system’s defenses, situational awareness, and response and recovery strategies. Traditionally, power systems were...

Tackling the cyber risks in the energy sector is just not critical for energy security but also is a vital component for a strong nation and economy as identified by the recent World Energy Committee report. The statement also focuses that there has been a steady growth in the total count of...

Although one segment of the proactive cybersecurity debate—e.g., hack back—has long been derided as a policy option carrying with it great risks of escalation, among other concerns, elements within the U.S. Congress and abroad are actively pushing to give companies a freer hand at defending...

A Recent study by industry body ASSOCHAM suggests that the e-Commerce market in India might attain $38 billion in 2016. In February 2016; a report by Counterpoint Research stated that India had achieved the second largest smartphone market in the world with 220 million smartphone users. Nowadays,...

Cyberattacks present existential challenges for U.S. national security and economic interests, yet Congress has failed to adopt a comprehensive regulatory framework to secure private-sector information and systems. To fill that gap, state legislatures have passed many laws that regulate data...

This paper highlights the emerging supervisory practices that contribute to effective cybersecurity risk supervision, with an emphasis on how these practices can be adopted by those agencies that are at an early stage of developing a supervisory approach to strengthen cyber resilience. Financial...

A firm's failure to protect and control confidential information is posited to affect its cost of debt. Using a sample of 199 cybersecurity breaches from 2005 to 2014, I find a positive association between a cybersecurity breach and a firm's cost of privately placed debt. Compared with loans...

A changing cybersecurity environment now poses a significant corporate-governance challenge. Although some cybersecurity data breaches may be inevitable, courts now increasingly consider when a corporation's officers and directors may be held liable on theories that they acted in bad faith and...

Purpose: Seaports are to a growing extent controlled by IT systems. Smooth information exchange is crucial for business. Downtimes give rise to substantial financial losses and supply bottlenecks, due to the interconnections in a complex alliance of port stakeholders‘ systems. Hence, Cyber...

Das Fundament des Internets zeigt Risse. Zentrale Elemente der Netz-Infrastruktur gehen auf Entscheidungen zurück, die vor Jahrzehnten getroffen wurden. Seitdem aber hat sich der technische Kontext ebenso massiv verändert wie die politische Bedeutung des Internets. Für die deutsche...