Abstract
The growing need for cyberdefense capabilities and the lack of specialists leave many organizations vulnerable to attacks. This chapter offers a comprehensive analysis of the cyberdefense capabilities of Swiss organizations active in cyberdefense. We also study the extent to which they exchange capabilities, and we produce a map of their informal networks. We find that the ecosystem as a whole is a scale-free network that hosts many capabilities, but they are distributed unevenly across organizations. Further, cooperation between these organizations is limited although opportunities to cooperate exist.
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The full questionnaire is available on request from the corresponding author.
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These comprised the Swiss Cyber Startup Map (https://cysecmap.swiss/), the Top 100 Startup Ranking (https://www.top100startups.swiss/) and the Startup Directory (https://www.startup.ch/startup-directory).
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For the SATW, see https://www.satw.ch/en/topics/cybersecurity; for the SIRA, see https://sira.swissinformatics.org/sira-members/.
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Aeschlimann, C., Cuche, K., Mermoud, A. (2023). Cybersecurity Ecosystems: A Network Study from Switzerland. In: Keupp, M.M. (eds) Cyberdefense. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 342. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30191-9_8
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