论文标题
网络安全和利维坦
Cyber security and the Leviathan
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论文摘要
专用的网络安全功能在商业企业中很常见，他们面临着数据泄露和其他危险安全事件的发展和普遍威胁。这样的企业与他们经营的更广泛的社会所融为一体。我们使用与15名首席信息安全官以及六位高级组织领导者的深入的半结构化访谈收集的数据，我们表明，政治哲学家托马斯·霍布斯（Thomas Hobbes）的工作，尤其是利维亚坦（Leviathan），提供了一个有用的镜头，可以通过这些镜头来了解西方社会这些功能和网络安全的背景。我们的发现表明，这些业务内的网络安全表明了许多霍布斯式特征，这些功能进一步涉及并为更广泛的利维坦风格状态带来了重大好处。这些包括侵入性控制的归一化，例如监视和刺激消费。最后，我们提出了对网络安全从业者的影响，特别是这些观点所提供的反思性以及企业和其他研究人员的反思性。
Dedicated cyber-security functions are common in commercial businesses, who are confronted by evolving and pervasive threats of data breaches and other perilous security events. Such businesses are enmeshed with the wider societies in which they operate. Using data gathered from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 15 Chief Information Security Officers, as well as six senior organisational leaders, we show that the work of political philosopher Thomas Hobbes, particularly Leviathan, offers a useful lens through which to understand the context of these functions and of cyber security in Western society. Our findings indicate that cyber security within these businesses demonstrates a number of Hobbesian features that are further implicated in, and provide significant benefits to, the wider Leviathan-esque state. These include the normalisation of intrusive controls, such as surveillance, and the stimulation of consumption. We conclude by suggesting implications for cyber-security practitioners, in particular, the reflexivity that these perspectives offer, as well as for businesses and other researchers.
