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Organisations need to have an updated strategic understanding of information security to safeguard their intangible assets (such as intellectual property, talents and skills, privacy data). This understanding should not be limited to the organisation per se, but should include the whole organisational universe. The return of geopolitics, coupled with the fact that the space of cyber is largely ungoverned poses new and significant challenges. The rising plethora of regulations in the digital domain aim to restore public trust in a digitised society, at the same time as the general distrust in both institutions and technology is on the rise. In this context, technology is never objective, but any application of technology will, by necessity, counter or reinforce one of the two main information paradigms that are developing.
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As a point for further reflection, the ability to respond decisively to these attacks has further been weakened by the philosophical victories of the postmodern worldview, where concepts such as “truth” have been deconstructed to anything which is true for the individual. “Alternative facts”, no matter how factually untrue they are, is just another version of the truth. Unfortunately, this has become a severe weakness in the ability of states and organizations to take action.
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One example of an ambitious and growing body of legislative exploration in this area is the Tallinn Manual, developed by, Estonia. The 2.0 version was published in 2017.
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Lawfare is a form of war consisting of the use of the legal system against an enemy, such as by damaging or delegitimizing them, tying up their time or winning a public relations victory. The term is a portmanteau of the words law and warfare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawfare
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Owman, L. (2020). The Ungoverned Space of Cyber: Protecting Your Intangibles. In: Matos, F., Vairinhos, V., Salavisa, I., Edvinsson, L., Massaro, M. (eds) Knowledge, People, and Digital Transformation. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40390-4_15
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