Journal Article - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

Creating the Demand Curve for Cybersecurity

| 2011

International Engagement on Cyber: 2011

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This article has been updated from an earlier version that was published by the Atlantic Council in December 2010.

The Executive Branch faces numerous complex challenges in a variety of domestic and international arenas. Strengthening our information security posture is certainly one of them, and the Administration must take a bold approach to accomplishing this end. The author presents a unique strategy for strengthening cybersecurity, recommending that the Executive Branch should call upon three independent regulatory agencies — the SEC, FCC, and FTC — to support our information infrastructure and protect American enterprise.

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For Academic Citation: Hathaway, Melissa. “Creating the Demand Curve for Cybersecurity.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, (2011):
163-170
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