Exploring Cyber Security Policy Options in Australia

About this book

Today's cyber environment presents unlimited opportunities for innovation, interaction, commerce, and creativity, but these benefits also bring serious security challenges. Satisfactory solutions will require building partnerships among public and private organizations, establishing mechanisms and incentives to foster routine information sharing and collective defense, and educating users about their role in thwarting increasingly sophisticated attacks. RAND developed and conducted a cyber security exercise in Canberra, Australia, that aimed to capture the widest possible range of stakeholder perspectives. Participants represented government, the private sector, think tanks and academic institutions, industry associations, and the media. The goal was to explore the challenges Australia faces in securing cyberspace by placing pressure on government authorities, industry capabilities, users' tolerance for malicious cyber activity, and the ability to develop interdisciplinary solutions to pressing cyber security challenges. The exercise was structured around two plausible cyber security scenarios set in the near future, and this was the third in a series of cyber security exercises d…