OMG Cyber!

M, Lee, Robert; Rid, Thomas

doi:10.1080/03071847.2014.969932

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“…First, such reports inform decisions at both the strategic and tactical level. Intelligence reports take highly technical data, combine the information with the interpretations of analysts, and give a bottom line to fill knowledge gaps in the government and guide action...Simply put: many of these reports are incomplete or inaccurate" [21].…”

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An Evidence Quality Assessment Model for Cyber Security Policymaking

Hussain

Shaikh²,

Chung

et al. 2018

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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One key factor underpinning a state's capacity to respond to policy challenges of cybersecurity is the quality of evidence supporting such decision making. As part of this process, policy advisers, essentially a diverse group including everyone from civil servants to elected policy makers, are asked to assess evidence from a mix of sources. Sometimes with little relevant expertise and often in time-critical scenarios, assessing threat, risk and proportionate response based on a mix of official briefings, academic sources, and industry threat reports is a challenge. The imperative of dealing with such issues in a timely fashion presents novel technical and political challenges for policy advisers. In this paper we present a model to help assess the quality of such evidence. The Evidence Quality Assessment Model (EQAM) is essentially a tool to help assess evidence fitness and credibility for use in such decision making. We illustrate the model with a sample of possible evidence sources to demonstrate how different attributes could be used for a comparison. The ultimate goal here is to help resolve potential conflicts and weigh findings and opinions systematically.

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An Evidence Quality Assessment Model for Cyber Security Policymaking

Hussain

Shaikh²,

Chung

et al. 2018

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…Hansen and Nissenbaum (2009) have argued influentially that cybersecurity, as an emerging discourse in international security, is the product of a technical computer security discourse plus securitization: the framing of international political issues as problems of security (Buzan, Waever, & Wilde, 1997). A large literature has critically examined the securitization of cyberspace (e.g., Barnard-Wills & Ashenden, 2012;Bendrath, 2001; Lee & Rid, 2014;Zajko, 2015), highlighting that cybersecurity threats are the contingent result of particular communications to a receptive audience. As Dunn Cavelty has shown, this securitization is not dependent on a single speech act, but has a complex genealogy (2008a, 2008b), and relies on less visible actors to shape threat perceptions (2013).…”

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Cyber-noir: Cybersecurity and popular culture

Shires

2019

Contemporary Security Policy

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Cybersecurity experts foster a perception of cybersecurity as a gloomy underworld in which the good guys must resort to unconventional tactics to keep at bay a motley group of threats to the digital safety of unsuspecting individuals, businesses, and governments. This article takes this framing seriously, drawing on film studies scholarship that identifies certain aesthetic themes as associated with moral ambiguity in noir films. This article introduces the term "cyber-noir" to describe the incorporation of noir elements in cybersecurity expert discourses. It argues that the concept of cyber-noir helps explain the persistence of practices that blur legal, moral, and professional lines between legitimate and malicious activity in cyberspace. Consequently, changing cybersecurity requires not only institutional and technological measures, but also a re-constitution of cybersecurity identities themselves. KEYWORDS Cybersecurity; popular culture; film; threat intelligence; noir; narrative Dark Trace. Digital Shadows. Dark Cubed. Carbon Black. Dark Matter. Many emerging companies in the cybersecurity industry deliberately play on the popular perception of cybersecurity as a nether region, a gloomy underworld in which the good guys must resort to unconventional tactics to keep at bay a motley group of threats to the digital safety of unsuspecting individuals, businesses, and governments. These purveyors of what might be called "cyber-noir"-defined as the incorporation of noir aesthetics and themes into expert cybersecurity discourses-are often dismissed in International Relations (IR) as a mere sideshow, a footnote to more comfortable state-based dynamics. This article does the opposite. It takes the branding of the cybersecurity industry seriously, asking why these companies seek to portray liminality, transgression, and tantalizing opacity. Is it, as a (relatively) viral video of Michael Sulmeyer, former Director of Harvard Kennedy School's Cybersecurity Project, put it,

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“…Tím je koncept "cyber", u kterého byly dopady jeho nadměrné popularity dobře zmapovány. 50 Níže je diskutováno několik konkrétních způsobů, jakými pragmatismus ohledně konceptu hybridní války může škodit nebo škodí bezpečnosti a obraně, ne nutně v pořadí závažnosti.…”

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PARADOX OF HYBRID WAR: On Causes and Implications of Pragmatism in the Debate

Bahenský¹

2018

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Cílem článku je rozebrat současnou situaci debaty o hybridní válce, konkrétně pak paradox spočívající v úspěchu konceptu navzdory jeho široké odborné kritice. Specificky pak článek jako pravděpodobné vysvětlení této situace diskutuje pragmatismus v užívání konceptu na straně institucí i autorů a analyzuje jeho možné příčiny, se zaměřením na vývoj a konceptuální kvality a možné následky stávající situace.

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OMG Cyber!

Abstract: In the film War Games (1983), ateenage hacker accidentally tricksJoshua-acomputer thatcontrols the US nucleararsenal-intoplaying war. Image courtesy of Everett Collection/REX.

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An Evidence Quality Assessment Model for Cyber Security Policymaking

An Evidence Quality Assessment Model for Cyber Security Policymaking

Cyber-noir: Cybersecurity and popular culture

PARADOX OF HYBRID WAR: On Causes and Implications of Pragmatism in the Debate

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