Public-private partnerships on cyber security

A Practice of Loyalty

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3737802
AutoresKristoffer Kjærgaard Christensen (Department of Social Sciences), Karen Lund Petersen (0000-0002-2399-1551, Department of Social Sciences)
Ano2017
Volume93
Fascículo6
Páginas1435-1452
Data de publicação2017-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ia/iix189
OpenAlexW2766055781
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas24

The governance of cyber-security risks is seen as increasingly important to the security of the nation. However, cyber-security risks are characterized by a fundamental uncertainty, which poses a great challenge to their governance and calls for new modes of organizing security politics. Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are often seen as the answer to this challenge by enhancing flexibility and robustness through knowledge-sharing. Engaging with the literature on PPPs and the Danish practice on cyber security, we show how PPPs involve controversies over different threat realities of cyber security. This plays out as controversies over what is considered threatened, the scope of the issue and the kind of expertise to be mobilized. Arguing that PPPs on security are not defined narrowly by short-sighted strategic self-interest but also loyalty and commitment, we suggest that the innovative potential of such PPPs lie not in a possible consensus on a common purpose and threat reality, but in the ability to embrace divergent definitions and approaches to cyber security. Acknowledging the corporate interests and loyalty, we suggest a move towards the notion of partnering through dissent.

Business · Computer security · Internet privacy · Loyalty · Political science · Private security · Public relations · Public security · Computer Science · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · Marketing · Public Administration