Cyber-security [What Think Tank are thinking]
Briefing
03-02-2017
Allegations of interference in the US electoral campaign in 2016 through cyber espionage and leaks have put the spotlight on cyber-security and cybercrime, not only for ensuring financial or strategic advantages, but increasingly as means of pursuing political aims. As digital technologies grow in importance, the clear view among analysts is that cyber-crime is becoming a major threat to governments, businesses and societies as a whole. This note offers links to reports and commentaries from some major international think tanks and research institutes on cyber-security and related issues.
Briefing
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- communications
- computer crime
- criminal law
- data protection
- economic geography
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- election
- electoral procedure and voting
- ENERGY
- energy policy
- energy site
- Europe
- GEOGRAPHY
- industrial espionage
- information and information processing
- information technology and data processing
- Internet
- LAW
- political geography
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- research and intellectual property
- Russia
- technology and technical regulations
- terrorism
- think tank
- threat to national security
- transmission network