Editor’s Note: A webcast of the Atlantic Council Strategy Papers Series Discussion, A Nonstate Strategy for Saving Cyberspace is available here.
From: FCW
By Chase Gunter
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Jason Healey, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the former director of cyber infrastructure protection at the White House, argues that the current cybersecurity strategy must be reimagined, starting with articulating the goal of the strategy itself and focusing on what has – and has not – worked in the past.
In his paper titled “A Nonstate Strategy for Saving Cybersecurity,” Healey wrote that thinking about cybersecurity suffers from fundamental misunderstandings of the dynamics of cyber conflict. As our dependence on cyberspace continues to grow, he posits, “the only way to ensure cyberspace remains as free, resilient, secure, and awesome for future generations is to flip the historic relationship between attackers and defenders of the Internet,” in which attackers have had the advantage.
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