Selling cybersecurity as economic issue? --- Thanks Juan for this reflection on G20 - especially the level of cyber-readiness of some of the key players there.

There are increasing efforts to link the economic discussions with cybersecurity. In particular, 'selling' cybersecurity as an indispensable factor of economic growth.

The professional lingo of the two communities, however, is different: even the word cybersecurity doesn't resonate well in the economic communities, as it reminds them of an issue which belongs to the security sector portfolio.

One suggestion includes re-framing cybersecurity as 'digital security' - a prefix 'digital' resembles development, digitalisation, innovations.. and is closer to their ears. But could this, instead, cause more confusion in the cybersecurity community?

We can discuss this during our last week of the course.

Source author: Vladimir Radunovic vladar@diplomacy.edu