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Wolff, J. (2016). What we talk about when we talk about cybersecurity: security in internet governance debates. Internet Policy Review, 5(3). https://doi.org/10.14763/2016.3.430

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Wolff, Josephine. 2016. "What we talk about when we talk about cybersecurity: security in internet governance debates". Internet Policy Review 5 (3). DOI: 10.14763/2016.3.430. https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-cybersecurity-security-internet-governance.

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Wolff J. What we talk about when we talk about cybersecurity: security in internet governance debates. Internet Policy Review [Internet]. 2016 [17 August 2026];5(3). Available from: https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-cybersecurity-security-internet-governance

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By opening the craft of interdisciplinary method to more explicit scrutiny, this special issue provides a novel space to examine how knowledge in the domains of cybersecurity, privacy, and digital rights governance is made, contested, and reshaped.

KEYWORDS: Interdisciplinarity, Interdisciplinary methods, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Digital rights

Declaration

This work was based on the research developed in the framework of PNRR/NextGenerationEU project "Biorobotics Research and Innovation Engineering Facilities “IR0000036” – CUP J13C22000400007".

Internet users need a cyber security mindset, argues William H. Dutton. This paper seeks to explain the concept of a security ‘mindset’ and its social significance.

KEYWORDS: Cyber security, Cybersecurity, Security, Mindset, User behaviour

European countries' welfare increasingly depends on the services of the information society. This comes along with a price tag: continued increase of the cyber threat spectrum. Despite the need for coordinated efforts in cyber security, Europe lacks of common understanding.

KEYWORDS: Cyber security, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity

Routing security sounds like a nice idea, yet in "post Snowden" times the trust in centralised core resources has vanished even more. Internet adminstrators warn against fragmentation, while at the same time making use of one tool that could go in that direction: the RPKI system.

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