SMU Vice Provost (Research) Steven Miller, SMU Professor of Information Systems Robert Kauffman and SMU Assistant Professor of Information Systems Wang Qiuhong contributed to an article on cybersecurity, which has been published in BRINK Asia. They discussed the trade-offs that comes with increasing security, including the erosion of privacy, illegal or extralegal persecution, the abuse of Internet censorship and the impediment to or stifling of innovation. They also highlighted the recent large-scale cybersecurity breaches in some Asian countries to illustrate the seriousness of cyber threats.
In the seemingly never-ending battle against cyber attacks, their recommendation is that governments in Asia should go beyond the essential steps of strengthening cybercrime laws and increasing the severity of cybercrime punishment. Additionally, Asian governments should more actively participate in cross-country collaboration networks for cyberspace monitoring and cybercrime deterrence, investigation and response.