Private Sector Participation --- is one of the critical areas in any cybersecurity intiative, Bentom, and your HT chat with Vladimir and Ivan illustrates why. In the discussions on this topic, one aspect of the private sector that is applied as a one-size-fits-all approach is that all private sector entities are driven by the profit motive, and interested in gaining and sustaining market access. Would you consider private sector entities that are driven by other motives including using cyber technologies for humanitarian purposes, and even private sector entities that have strong linkages with the state? Should the examination of private sector roles in cybersecurity not disaggregate the private sector according to its primary function - communication, data collection and dissemination, social care, health care etc etc? Would that help in addressing the issue of cybersecurity in a more nuanced manner, rather than the current omnibus approach? What do other participants in the class think?

Source author: Asoke Mukerji asokem@diplomacy.edu