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    Cyber security challenges are growing as more infrastructure and services become connected digitally. Critical infrastructure like utilities, defense systems, and financial networks are increasingly at risk as they rely on information and communication technologies that have inherent security weaknesses. While the private sector owns most critical infrastructure, governments have an important role to play in establishing security policies, regulations, and incentives to address gaps between private sector investments and the broader national security needs. Coordination is also needed across both public and private entities to define responsibilities and achieve an integrated approach to cyber security.

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    Cyber security challenges are growing as more infrastructure and services become connected digitally. Critical infrastructure like utilities, defense systems, and financial networks are increasingly at risk as they rely on information and communication technologies that have inherent security weaknesses. While the private sector owns most critical infrastructure, governments have an important role to play in establishing security policies, regulations, and incentives to address gaps between private sector investments and the broader national security needs. Coordination is also needed across both public and private entities to define responsibilities and achieve an integrated approach to cyber security.

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    Cyber security challenges are growing as more infrastructure and services become connected digitally. Critical infrastructure like utilities, defense systems, and financial networks are increasingly at risk as they rely on information and communication technologies that have inherent security weaknesses. While the private sector owns most critical infrastructure, governments have an important role to play in establishing security policies, regulations, and incentives to address gaps between private sector investments and the broader national security needs. Coordination is also needed across both public and private entities to define responsibilities and achieve an integrated approach to cyber security.

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    Cyber Security Challenges

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    Cyberspace comprises IT networks, computer resources, and all the fixed and mobile
    devices connected to the global Internet. A nations cyberspace is part of the global
    cyberspace; it cannot be isolated to define its boundaries since cyberspace is borderless.
    This is what makes cyberspace unique. Unlike the physical world that is limited by
    geographical boundaries in spaceland, sea, river waters, and aircyberspace can and is continuing to
    expand. Increased Internet penetration is leading to growth of cyberspace, since its size is proportional to
    the activities that are carried through it.

    Nations are investing heavily in their ICT infrastructures with a view to providing higher bandwidths,
    integrate national economies with the global marketplace, and to enable citizens or netizens to access
    more and more e-services.

    Given the security problems, there is increased emphasis on, and investment in, the security of cyber
    infrastructure. Core Internet protocols are insecure, and an explosion of mobile devices continues to be
    based on the same insecure systems. This is adding up to increased usage of the Internet in more
    vulnerable cyberspace.

    Protection of critical infrastructure operations has emerged as a major challenge. This is because trillions of
    dollars move through the networks every day involving a broad range of activities, including e-commerce, e-
    governance, travel, hospitality, health care, and general communications. Electricity distribution, water
    distribution, and several other utility services are based on ICT infrastructures. The defense sector relies
    heavily on electronic systems.
    Ownership and Responsibility
    Critical infrastructure is largely owned and operated by the private sector. But is security only the private
    sectors responsibility? Does this mean that government has a lesser role? These are some of the important
    cybersecurity issues that nations are grappling with. At an organizational level, too, cybersecurity is not
    merely a technology issue, but a management issue. This is grounded in enterprise risk management, which
    calls for an understanding of the human, process, legal, network, and ICT security aspects.

    It is obvious that multiple agencies are involved in securing ICT infrastructure. These include private
    operators for their respective pieces of the infrastructure. Their efforts need to be firmly coordinated through
    an integrated command-and-control entity, which should serve as a unifying structure that is accountable for
    cybersecurity.

    Roles and responsibilities of each of the parties need to be clearly defined. At the same time, governments
    need to establish the appropriate policy and legal structures. Nations, such as the United States, have
    advocated for a market-based, voluntary approach to industry cybersecurity as part of the National Strategy
    to Secure Cyberspace. But this has not worked entirely, because security investments made by industry, as
    per their corporate needs, are not found to be commensurate with the broader national interest. How will
    the additional private investments be generated? Is there a case for government incentives, as part of an
    incentive program to bridge the gap between those security investments already made and those additional
    ones that are needed to secure critical infrastructure?

    Several security surveys point to this need. They reveal a lack of adequate knowledge among executives
    about security policy and incidents, the latest technological solutions, data leakage, financial loss, and the
    training that is needed for their employees.

    Since cyberspace is relatively new, legal concepts for standards of care do not exist. Is there a case for
    governments to offer incentives to generate collective action? For example, they could provide reduced
    liability or tax incentives as a trade off for improved security, new regulatory requirements, and compliance
    mechanisms.12 Governments need to provide incentives for industry to invest in security at a level that is
    not justified by corporate business plans.

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