Gary Shiffman and Ravi Gupta have written an interesting new article: “Crowdsourcing cyber security: a property rights view of exclusion and theft on the information commons.” From the abstract:Individuals increasingly rely upon the internet for…
One of the most notable challenges in dealing with cybersecurity is the difficulty of adequately conveying the scope and size of cyberspace. It’s easy to say that there are nearly 2.5 billion internet users in the world (35% of the world’s…
In his State of the Union address, President Obama announced that he had signed an executive order (EO) on cybersecurity. The order uses a standard-setting approach to improve cybersecurity. However, such a model will only impose costs, encourage…
As Rafaella reported last night, President Obama went “all-in” on cybersecurity last night, marrying a substantive mention of cyber in his State of the Union address (I’m bitter about that — I bet against it, which shows you how valuable my…
The confirmation process for three key Administration positions is expected to begin in the next couple weeks, with Senator John Kerry (D–MA) nominated for Secretary of State, former Senator Chuck Hagel (R–NE) nominated for Secretary of Defense, and…
