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.

Research Paper

Closed Access research paper available here: Cybersecurity Ecosystems: A Network Study from Switzerland.

BibTex

@Inbook{Aeschlimann2023,
author="Aeschlimann, C{\'e}dric
and Cuche, Kilian
and Mermoud, Alain",
editor="Keupp, Marcus Matthias",
title="Cybersecurity Ecosystems: A Network Study from Switzerland",
bookTitle="Cyberdefense: The Next Generation",
year="2023",
publisher="Springer International Publishing",
address="Cham",
pages="123--134",
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.",
isbn="978-3-031-30191-9",
doi="10.1007/978-3-031-30191-9_8",
url="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30191-9_8"
}