Cybersecurity as an Organizational Strategy: An Ethical and Legal Perspective

Cybersecurity as Organizational Strategy

Across the board -- in business, society, and government -- the promise of cyber capabilities are matched by potential peril. The cyber environment is never static, but it is perhaps most agile in response to the continual stream of emerging cyber threats and realized cyber attacks ("PCAST," 2007). Cybersecurity must be agile. The challenges that must be met in order to secure the cyber realm for all of its legitimate constituents are enormous. Cybersecurity issues are organic, adapting to an evolving environment with the sensitivity and responsiveness of an invading microorganism. Though not to abuse the parallel to medical science, the best defenses against invading cyber threats are information and preparation. As such, cybersecurity can be characterized as technology plus network security plus information assurance ("Booz Allen Hamilton," 2011).

Strategic integration of cybersecurity efforts is measured...
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