Structuring the national cyber defence: in evolution towards a Central Cyber Authority

Eviatar Matania, Lior Yoffe and Tal Goldstein

Journal of Cyber Policy, 2017, vol. 2, issue 1, 16-25

Abstract: The unique characteristics of cyberspace challenge current national structures, originally built to cope with conventional threats. This realisation leads nations to search for the adequate structures and processes that could optimally tackle the new cyber risk while protecting core civil rights. This paper describes the three-phase evolution process that most countries have already gone through in structuring their cybersecurity activities. We then analyse the limitations of the current phase and outline the necessity in the next phase of evolution of governmental structures – the formation of a national Central Cyber Authority (CCA), a single civilian entity with concrete operational capabilities, responsible for defending the national cyberspace and leading national cybersecurity efforts. We present the logic behind this next phase of evolution as well as basic principles and components comprising the new CCA and its relations with current governmental organisations – regulators, law enforcement agencies and the intelligence community.

Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23738871.2017.1299193 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rcybxx:v:2:y:2017:i:1:p:16-25

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rcyb20

DOI: 10.1080/23738871.2017.1299193

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Cyber Policy is currently edited by Emily Taylor

More articles in Journal of Cyber Policy from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().