Multiple stakeholders --- are a fact of life in cyberspace in India, Bentom. In my experience with our CERT, this interaction between the government and the private sector had already begun several years ago. The CERT-In interacts in a proactive way to anticipate and respond to cyber attacks with "vendors" who are invariably private sector entities. Due to the focus on a multiple stakeholder approach to cybersecurity India has taken the "leap" of close coordination between the government and the private sector (which has a high profile platform called NASSCOM, that facilitates such consultation). Can this approach be applied globally is of course the big question, since cyberspace and attacks in cyberspace may not respect the national boundaries drawn on "political" maps of the world.

Source author: Asoke Mukerji asokem@diplomacy.edu