Cyber security is a very controversial subject that probably has started even the early days of the Internet. Yet strategies and dedication by entities to adopt an effective cyber security appears to be inadequate to a certain degree. What anybody with terror purpose, through the Internet, can...

In the United States, identity theft resulted in corporate and consumer losses of $56 billion dollars in 2005, with up to 35 percent of known identity thefts caused by corporate data breaches. Many states have responded by adopting “data breach disclosure laws” that require firms to notify...

Well documented breaches have heightened the public's and regulatory agencies' concerns about how well companies are securing consumer-specific information. Despite some initial advances, sensitive information is still commonly stolen. Internal threat issues and the fact that extended...

Research being conducted by computer scientists offers great promise in improving cybersecurity threats in the short and long term. Progress in cybersecurity research, however, is beset by a lack of access to data from communications networks. Legally and informally protected individual privacy...

Hackers account for enormous costs associated with computer intrusion in a world increasingly reliant on computer and Internet-based technologies. Within the hacker community, there are “good” hackers called white hat hackers and “bad” hackers called black hat hackers. Essentially, one...

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...