The Convergence Puzzle:
Australia, Germany and Emerging Cybersecurity Trends
Edited by Katja Theodorakis
Cyber Security
In a hyper-connected and highly networked world, technology enables individuals, civil society, non-state actors and institutions to impact on social and political agendas more than ever before. And since global powershifts manifest in competing political models that seek to challenge the liberal order - developments in cyberspace also reflect these power dynamics.
Read more +Our analysis seeks to cover these crucial aspects of contemporary cybersecurity challenges - ranging from the geopolitical level and questions about the shifting global order and international cyber norms to offensive cyber operations, private sector/industry perspectives, as well as the challenges of building the cyber workforce of the future. Grappling with cybersecurity therefore also involves addressing underlying questions on sovereignty, trade-offs between privacy and security, transparency and accountability.
As value partners, Germany and Australia share a very similar approach based on their common value basis yet how ’Cybersecurity is done’ at the policy level varies – and it is important to better understand the key differences in these approaches in order to capture their nuances and inherent possibilities. Accordingly, the value lies in comparative analyses and an exchange of perspectives especially when there are diverging approaches on a certain issue.
Our PERISCOPE focus is hence wide and narrow at the same time: pointed at how to best manage emerging challenges based on strategic assessments that are responsive to the respective geopolitical, socio-political and economic contexts from which they arise. In particular, one key objective is to assess how and why Australia and Germany/Europe may take similar or different approaches, looking at the varied circumstances they may encounter in specific areas.