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Date: Jul 21 2011 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Location:
Brookings, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW Saul/Zilkha Rooms, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Cybersecurity: Incentives and Governance
Brookings Institution
Thursday, July 21, 2011
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0721_cybersecurity.aspx
Despite a rush of media stories, academic research, Capitol Hill briefings, and increased attention from policymakers, the priorities and risks of cybersecurity remain ill-defined and poorly understood. Even knowledgeable experts tend to mistakenly blur separate threats that span the range of crime, espionage, and global conflict, each of which have a unique set of actors, incentives and priorities.
On July 21, the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings will host a panel discussion to clarify and refine policy discussions surrounding the risks built into our information technology systems. Panelists will evaluate how economic concepts—including externalities, information asymmetries and the network effect—can help us understand how to reward good security practices and punish bad ones, and discuss how these concepts can be embedded in a range of governance mechanisms to better evaluate the alignment of public priorities and private incentives.
Moderator
Allan A. Friedman
Fellow, Governance Studies
Panelists
Larry Clinton
President and CEO
Internet Security Alliance
Bruce McConnell
Senior Counselor and Director, Cyber+Strategy, National Protection and Programs Directorate
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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