Governing Private Sector Self-Help in Cyberspace: Analogies from the Physical World
The cyber risk landscape has deteriorated in recent years with massive ransomware attacks, large-scale data breaches, evidence of pervasive cyber vulnerabilities, and aggressive, persistent intrusions into critical infrastructure and other sensitive targets. This raises the question how far private actors are allowed, expected, or obliged to go in protecting themselves. In this report for the
Carnegie Endowment for Democracy, Wyatt Hoffman and Steven Nyikos suggest that there are risks in any path involving the private sector. With systemic cyber risks to public safety, economic prosperity, and national security continuing to rise, one must focus on feasible stopgap measures rather than attempting to define an ideal end-state.
https://carnegieendowment.org/files/Hoffman_Nyikos_Self_Help_FINAL_WEB_bio_edit.pdf
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