Rethinking the Role of the Foreign Intelligence Community in Promoting Cybersecurity
Despite escalating concerns associated with cybersecurity and the open Internet, coordinated responses and comprehensive strategies to deal with mounting challenges have been understandably slow to develop. The Internet environment is a distinctly shared space: it comprises many interdependencies among public and private, and governance of some central functions has been distributed among many parties, government and private, and undertaken by consensus and practice, rather than formal and by fiat. While a high proportion of Internet infrastructure is private, and government has carved out a central role in cybersecurity, action taken by government and corporate actors has been highly fragmented. Further complicating matters, trust in government -- in particular the intelligence community -- to address the mounting concerns around cybersecurity is at a low point. Moreover, the level of engagement by civil society groups and academia has been notably lacking, beyond noting the impact on individual freedom of particular security proposals. Comprehensive cybersecurity frameworks that recognize and build upon the distributed and generative nature of the Internet have not received adequate support, and suffer from a lack of coordination. Basic cybersecurity vulnerabilities are not sufficiently owned by any combination of parties, and actions by stakeholders may not be sufficiently considered with an eye to changes in systemic risk that those actions could cause.
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