States' responsibility --- This is critical because states can and should bear primary responsibility for protecting cyberspace, but their continued posturing on the need to strengthen cyber-security on one hand while undermining it for their own purposes on the other leaves everyday people more vulnerable. Like the kind of discourse that developed after world war 2 on state behaviour during wartime, it is necessary for similar agreements and standards when it comes to acts in cyberspace. We can only hope that states don't wait for a world war 2 like event in cyberspace before they make that happen.

Source author: Pavitra Ramanujam pavitra.ramanujam@gmail.com