Would Cybersecurity Professionalization Help Address the Cybersecurity Crisis?
Evaluating the trade-offs involved in cybersecurity professionalization.
Seymour E. Goodman
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Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace
Readers of this column are familiar with descriptions of cybersecurity threats and potentially dire consequences, particularly as more critical activities become dependent on cyberspace. They also recognize the high ongoing burden of living with and defending against cyberattacks. At the same time, many policymakers (including those with responsibility for security) have a wide range of […]
International Perspectives: Wiring the Wilderness in Alaska and the Yukon
Breaking down the partitions that divide the digital world.
International Perspectives: From Via Maris to Electronic Highway: the Internet in Canaan
ISPs, governments, and telecos work to link the old world to the new in a volatile region.
Computing in a less-developed country
Almost all of the nations of Latin America are so-called less-developed countries (LDCs). But unlike many such countries elsewhere, quite a few have recently attempted to install more democratic, or at least less authoritarian, governments that are permitting greater freedom of expression and information and encouraging market-oriented economic developments. The latter include decreasing protectionism and moves toward the privatization of state enterprises such as telecommunications companies. Given the land area, natural resources, and populations involved, these developments are potentially of enormous international importance. The information technologies (IT) could be used to accelerate and reinforce these political and economic changes.
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