Situating Power in Cyber Threat Knowledge

Situating Power in Cyber Threat Knowledge

연구 분야: Safety

학회: Digital Society

The practice of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) sharing among cybersecurity stakeholders is the bedrock on which organisations build their cyber situation awareness. Dependent upon automated systems and communications among a variety of globally distributed actors, we show this ecology of CTI production to be a complex socio-technical nexus manufacturing both information and power. We frame this ecosystem in terms of the ability of actors to project their influence through the production and regulation of information artifacts. Deploying Barnett and Duvall’s taxonomy of power in global governance, we suggest that nation-states that have greater structural capacities for symbiotic non-formal public-private engagements in cybersecurity can better maneuver their strategic and sovereign interests globally through the governance of transnational CTI production and sharing practices. However, owing to its added usefulness as a potential instrument of international power politics, contemporary CTI communications could themselves suffer from a loss of objectivity and trust which is hard to ignore and compensate for.