Cybersecurity

We must treat cybersecurity as a public good. Here's why

Giant waves crash over onlookers washing them off the sea wall of Cape Town's Kalk Bay harbour, August 27, 2005. The two men were later rescued as storms created waves of an estimated nine metres.

Lighthouses are a public good: everyone benefits, and no one can be excluded from doing so. Image: REUTERS/Philip Massie

Mariarosaria Taddeo
Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Francesca Bosco
Project Lead, Cyber-Resilience, Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum
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