Journal article
Municipal Cybersecurity: More Work Needs to be Done
Urban affairs review (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), v 58(2), pp 614-629
01 Mar 2022
Abstract
As governments have digitized their operations, they have opened themselves to cyberattacks, resulting in harmful disruptions to government services. The scholarly world has been slow to pick up on this growing risk. Professional associations have conducted studies of their own, and produced recommendations, but few scholars have looked closely at cybersecurity practices at the municipal level. The interconnectedness of local infrastructure-across and among agencies and levels of government-makes it hard to figure out what is happening. In this paper, we urge scholars from multiple disciplines to examine the dangers created by the cross-linkages that characterize local cybersecurity. We examine the existing academic research, and demonstrate the significant growth in cybersecurity practice that has cropped up in spite of the relative sparsity of academic work. Theory and practice need to catch up with each other.
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- Title
- Municipal Cybersecurity: More Work Needs to be Done
- Creators
- Benjamin Preis - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLawrence Susskind - MIT, Dept Urban Studies & Planning, Urban & Environm Planning, Cybersecur Clin, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
- Publication Details
- Urban affairs review (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), v 58(2), pp 614-629
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 16
- Grant note
- DGE-1745302 / National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Nowak Metro Finance Lab; Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000601224900001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85096400721
- Other Identifier
- 991021901714604721
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- Urban Studies