Expertise at the boundaries: Understanding critical infrastructure cybersecurity

Slayton, Rebecca and Stevens, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5685-7930 2024. Expertise at the boundaries: Understanding critical infrastructure cybersecurity. H-Diplo Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum 3 (4) , 6.

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Abstract

Decisions about how to manage the integration of IT and OT entail trade-offs between different kinds of public goods and risks, including security, safety, reliability, and economy. These trade-offs are not merely arcane technical issues, but policy challenges that cross boundaries between governments, sectors, and fields of expertise. In this essay, we first outline the challenges of managing risks that span these traditional boundaries. We then focus on a challenge that underlies risk management across all of these boundaries: the challenge of creating credible expertise in a still-emerging area of technology that creates new opportunities for emerging threats. While policy often seeks to manage boundary-spanning risks from the top-down—with governmental policies shaping cooperation between public and private organizations, which in turn coordinate and structure the work of different kinds of experts—we argue for a bottom-up approach that examines how the cultural practices of experts alternately produce, maintain, navigate, and transcend boundaries.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JZ International relations T Technology > T Technology (General)
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	13 May 2024
Date of Acceptance:	April 2024
Last Modified:	05 Jun 2024 15:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/168869

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