Abstract
The Internet facilitates a level of interoperability among individuals, organizations, sectors, and countries that generates widening opportunities for collaboration and innovation. Digital infrastructure is rapidly becoming the lifeblood of a more virtual and interdependent globalizing economy, as every major industrial sector widens its reliance on electronic systems and online connectivity. At the same time, online and virtual threats to organizations in all sectors have become a way of virtual life. Facing increasingly frequent threats externally, governments carry the dual responsibilities of safeguarding their own infrastructures and information holdings as well as overseeing the digital resilience of their jurisdictions as a whole.
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The data breach involved the loss of an external memory stick within the federal department responsible for student loan processing (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada): financial and personal data on an estimated 500,000 citizens, holders of student loans, was said to be misplaced. One irony of this episode is reporting that the spectre of legal action against the government may prompt it toward wider usage of cloud systems—for which the federal government has proved trepid in exploring due to concerns about data privacy (Press 2013). Such themes in terms of personal privacy and the Government of Canada’s cautious temperament toward digital renewal and cloud systems specifically are returned to later in this chapter as well as Chap. 8, respectively.
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Source, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_crash
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Obama, B. (2009). Obama announces complete overhaul of cyber security (Part 1), May 29th (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgDsXAykAm0).
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The United States also reportedly launched its first major cyber-attack on another country in 2011, a coordinated effort with Israel aimed at destabilizing Iran’s nuclear development program. The action, reported in the New York Times and in a subsequent book, also sparked heightened debate and concern among lawmakers about leaks and the need for secrecy pertaining to national security measures (yet another example of widening tensions between openness—imposed or invited—and the traditional public sector culture of secrecy).
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Source, US White House. (2012). Digital government: Building a 21st century platform to better serve the American people (http://www.whitehoiuse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/egov/digital-government/digital-government.html). The report provides a thoughtful and useful examination of the implications of mobility and security for public sector governance both internally and in terms of external outreach.
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Roy, J. (2013). Cybersecurity. In: From Machinery to Mobility. Public Administration and Information Technology, vol 2. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7221-6_5
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