Cyber Policy

Dr. O. Shawn Cupp, Professor at US Army, participates in Risk Roundup to discuss Cyberspace Policy.

Cyberspace

Cyberspace is fundamentally changing the human ecosystem in aquaspace, geospace, and space (CAGS). As seen, billions of devices are already connected to the internet today, and billions more will be connecting in the coming tomorrow. The growth in high-speed internet access and devices connected to the internet has given rise to big data that has helped transform every component of a nation.

As seen today, individuals and entities across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA) already rely on computer-driven and interconnected information and communication technologies. As a result, each nation’s security now depends on how all components of a nation (individually and collectively) respond to cyberspace.

Understandably, securing cyberspace has become a survival need for everyone across nations. The reason is that cyberspace is an inseparable component of nations’ digital systems and a way of life now. Not only that, cyberspace is connecting geospace, aquaspace, and space as well. From financial system to social, economic system to commerce, government and political life, everyone and everything are getting connected. This fundamentally changes how nations operate across CAGS.

Cyber Policy

Today, cyberspace is a contested common along with aquaspace, geospace, and space and its use as a battleground to wage war is rapidly intensifying. Cyberspace seems to be evolving faster than the policymaker’s ability to handle the transformative changes brought on by the technology.

Keeping up with the rapidly growing complexity of the raging war in cyberspace is a challenge facing not only nations military, but also individuals and entities across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA), and even the policy community.

So, how do nations keep up?

• How can nations, individually and collectively respond to the complex security, legal and policy challenges of cyberspace and due to cyberspace in aquaspace, geospace, and space?
• How can nations develop a theoretical and doctrinal legal and policy infrastructure capable of integrating transformative technologies from cyberspace, aquaspace, geospace, and space?

To begin with, every entity across NGIOA needs to define protection mechanisms for their digital infrastructure, data, and systems. Defining security controls, tools, and processes is a survival need today. So, as we develop a security policy, it is not just a technological solution; it is instead, a doctrine to give measurable goals for our collective security controls and response.

Since security policy applies to the entire nations, it, therefore, must be defined, described, and documented in clear terms for digital infrastructure, physical security, critical infrastructure security across CAGS, hardware, software, systems, war weapons, and so on. Developing a cyber policy needs to be a collective effort from all security stakeholders across NGIOA. It is therefore essential to evaluate:

• What is cyberspace to nations and all its components?
• What is the current approach to cyberspace?
• As we rely on information systems to generate data, knowledge, information, and intelligence; how reliable are the digital information systems?
• Do we understand the strategic security impact of cyberspace?
• What are policy challenges emerging because of cyberspace?

The ultimate goal of the cyber policy is to create a cybersecurity framework to increase the security posture of cyberspace. The time is now to discuss and debate Cyber Policy!

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About the Guest

Dr. Cupp is a faculty member of a multi-departmental teaching team instructing the Intermediate Level Education (ILE) including the ILE Core Course and the Advanced Operational Warfighting Course (AOWC). Responsible for presentation, revision, development, and evaluation of graduate-level, force projection, and maneuver sustainment, resource planning, and force management instruction; to a diverse audience of US and international field grade officers. Serves as a mentor and coaches 16 operations career field students as their Staff Group Advisor (ASGA). Educate and counsel officers in a course that develops and improves their problem solving, critical reasoning and creative thinking, leadership development, cultural awareness, and military-media relations. Curriculum, course author, and lesson author duties include A430 Characteristics of Domestic Incidents in the Advance Application Program (AAP) as part of the Homeland Security Studies Program Track V. Subject matter expert within the college for adult education, domestic threats, agroterrorism, and research in homeland security threats.

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