Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Tensions in collaborative cyber security and how they affect incident detection and response

Book ·
OSTI ID:978979

Security often requires collaboration, but when multiple stakeholders are involved, it is typical for their priorities to differ or even conflict with one another. In today’s increasingly networked world, cyber security collaborations may span organizations and countries. In this chapter, we address collaboration tensions, their effects on incident detection and response, and how these tensions may potentially be resolved. We present three case studies of collaborative cyber security within the U.S. government and discuss technical, social, and regulatory challenges to collaborative cyber security. We suggest possible solutions, and present lessons learned from conflicts. Finally, we compare collaborative solutions from other domains and apply them to cyber security collaboration. Although we concentrate our analysis on collaborations whose purpose is to achieve cyber security, we believe that this work applies readily to security tensions found in collaborations of a general nature as well.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
978979
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-62872
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Towards Efficient Collaboration in Cyber Security
Conference · Thu Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · OSTI ID:986266

ConsoleWorks Cyber Security Assessment
Technical Report · Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2009 · OSTI ID:959389

Shopping For Danger: E-commerce techniques applied to collaboration in cyber security
Conference · Thu May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2012 · OSTI ID:1051197