Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is a classic public goods problem — individually rational security investment produces systemically inadequate protection. With cybercrime costs reaching $10.5 trillion annually and critical infrastructure increasingly connected, GDEF examines the collective action challenges of cybersecurity governance, the economics of vulnerability disclosure, and the institutional innovations needed to raise security baselines across interconnected systems.
Insights on Cybersecurity
2 publications exploring this topic.
Quantum Computing and the Post-Quantum Cryptographic Transition
The post-quantum cryptographic transition is not primarily a technical challenge but an institutional coordination game — and the current equilibrium of delay is systemically dangerous.
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Cybersecurity Collective Action and Critical Infrastructure Protection
With cybercrime costs reaching $10.5 trillion annually, cybersecurity exhibits classic public goods characteristics with free-rider problems that demand institutional solutions.
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Investigating the systemic implications of emerging technologies — including artificial intelligence, distributed ledger systems, and quantum computing — for industrial competitiveness, workforce transformation, and responsible innovation governance.
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