Print Email Facebook Twitter Cybersecurity as a Politikum Title Cybersecurity as a Politikum: Implications of Security Discourses for Infrastructures Author Fichtner, L.V.E. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Pieters, W. (TU Delft Safety and Security Science) Herdeiro Teixeira, A.M. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Date 2016 Abstract In the cybersecurity community it is common to think of security as a design feature for systems and infrastructures that may be difficult to balance with other requirements. What is less studied is how security requirements come about, for which reasons, and what their influence is on the actions the system facilitates. Security is for example often used as an argument for or against granting access rights that are of importance to stakeholders, such as in the discussion on counterterrorism and privacy. This paper argues that the ongoing politicization of security issues calls for a paradigm to study cybersecurity as a Politikum: a matter of political concern, embedded in existing and future infrastructures. We summarize literature which inspired this paper and explain the role of security arguments for infrastructure governance. Then we outline the new paradigm and its core concepts and contribution, including the notion of framing. Finally, we present discourse analysis and infrastructure ethnography as research methods and discuss cases in which discourses (may) shape infrastructures, in particular smart cities. Subject discourse analysisframinginfrastructure ethnographysecurity argumentssecurity politicssecuritizationthreat models To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:41c8b4f1-0681-4ba1-b444-eb20be8e10f0 DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3011883.3011887 Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York ISBN 978-1-4503-4813-3 Source Proceedings of the 2016 New Security Paradigms Workshop Event New Security Paradigms Workshop 2016, 2016-09-26 → 2016-09-29, Granby, Colorado, United States Bibliographical note Accepted Author Manuscript Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2016 L.V.E. Fichtner, W. Pieters, A.M. Herdeiro Teixeira Files PDF Cybersecurity_as_a_Politi ... eprint.pdf 302.61 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:41c8b4f1-0681-4ba1-b444-eb20be8e10f0/datastream/OBJ/view