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Motivating Cybersecurity: Assessing the Status of Critical Infrastructure as an Object of Cyber Threats

Motivating Cybersecurity: Assessing the Status of Critical Infrastructure as an Object of Cyber Threats
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Author(s): Sean Lawson (University of Utah, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 22
Source title: Cyber Behavior: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5942-1.ch106

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Abstract

Based on an analysis of key policy documents and statements from civilian policymakers, military leaders, and cybersecurity experts, this chapter demonstrates that although there is still concern over cyber threats to critical infrastructure, other threat objects have begun to figure more prominently in public policy discourse about cybersecurity in the United States. In particular, intellectual property and government secrets are now identified most often as the primary object of cyber threats. When critical infrastructure is mentioned, it is often used as a motivational tactic, with collapse of critical infrastructure serving as a central theme of hypothetical scenarios meant to motivate a policy response. This chapter documents and critically evaluates this shift in U.S. cybersecurity discourse.

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