The Silicon Flatirons Center convened 43 leaders from the legal, academic, and business community (collectively, “the Roundtable”) on January 10, 2013. The Roundtable discussed the risks of cloud computing and how businesses generally, and the health care and energy sectors specifically, can...

Based on the relativity of the concept of cybersecurity, this article analyzes the economic impact of cybersecurity breaches, identifies cybersecurity as a private good that should be provided mainly by the private sector. However, public provision is also necessary when severe security breaches...

A dynamic global security environment makes it indispensable to study the national security policy of the United States in light of the issues and vulnerabilities posed by frequent perils from innumerable sources. With the growing threat of the use of weapons of mass destruction by several state...

Efforts to secure and defend public- and private-sector cyber systems rely in part on information sharing. Information sharing strengthens the nation’s cybersecurity posture by allowing participating entities to have the broadest possible understanding of the tactics, techniques, and...

Cybercrime and cyber-security are attracting increasing attention, both for the relevance of Critical Information Infrastructure to the national economy and security, and the interplay of the policies tackling them with ‘ICT sensitive’ liberties, such as privacy and data protection. This...

When it comes to commodification on the Internet, it is a wild, wild World Wide Web. Researching encyclopedia articles for Wikipedia is an unpaid labor of love, but connecting to your friends on Facebook is a $100 billion enterprise. Newspaper classified advertisements are definitely commercial,...

Views range widely about the seriousness of cyber attacks and the likelihood of cyber war. But even framing cyber attacks within the context of a loaded category like war can be an oversimplification that shifts focus away from enhancing cybersecurity against the full range of threats now facing...

This work explores the common attributes of different types of cyber risk with a view to better understanding the key attributes that contribute to each type of cyber risk category. In doing so we explore event studies on a range of different market sectors, different countries, different...

Amidst rapid urban development, sustainable transportation solutions are required to meet the increasing demands for mobility whilst mitigating the potentially negative social, economic, and environmental impacts. This study analyses autonomous vehicles (AVs) as a potential transportation...

Technological revolutions bring opportunities, but sometimes even greater threats. This ‘paradox of progress’ affects cyberspace and threatens the very principle and foundation of the open internet. The global debate on cyber-governance is currently in a stalemate on the norms for global...