NDLI: Breaking the Cyber-Security Dilemma: Aligning Security Needs and Removing Vulnerabilities

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Dunn Cavelty, Myriam
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Current approaches to cyber-security are not working. Rather than producing more security, we seem to be facing less and less. The reason for this is a multi-dimensional and multi-faceted security dilemma that extends beyond the state and its interaction with other states. It will be shown how the focus on the state and “its” security crowds out consideration for the security of the individual citizen, with detrimental effects on the security of the whole system. The threat arising from cyberspace to (national) security is presented as possible disruption to a specific way of life, one building on information technologies and critical functions of infrastructures, with relatively little consideration for humans directly. This non-focus on people makes it easier for state actors to militarize cyber-security and (re-)assert their power in cyberspace, thereby overriding the different security needs of human beings in that space. Paradoxically, the use of cyberspace as a tool for national security, both in the dimension of war fighting and the dimension of mass-surveillance, has detrimental effects on the level of cyber-security globally. A solution out of this dilemma is a cyber-security policy that is decidedly anti-vulnerability and at the same time based on strong considerations for privacy and data protection. Such a security would have to be informed by an ethics of the infosphere that is based on the dignity of information related to human beings.
Starting Page	701
Ending Page	715
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13533452
Journal	Science and Engineering Ethics
Volume Number	20
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	14715546
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-04-30
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Cyber-security Human security Surveillance Information ethics Ethics Philosophy of Science Engineering Biomedical Engineering Medicine/Public Health Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects Health (social science) Management of Technology and Innovation Health Policy

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