Cybersecurity Mission Creep in the US
Schneier highlights research arguing that US policymakers are stretching the cybersecurity label to cover misinformation, child safety, and antitrust — a scope expansion that may dilute genuine security mandates.
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Interesting paper: “ Cybersecurity Mission Creep .” Abstract: Cybersecurity is experiencing mission creep. Policymakers are casting more and more problems as issues of cybersecurity. So reframed, wildly different policy issues, from misinformation, to child social media safety laws, to antitrust regulations, to alleged journalist misconduct, to anti-sex trafficking statutes become what this Article calls “cybersecuritized.” Before this reframing, these issues present as important but not existen
Editorial Analysis
If cybersecurity regulation absorbs unrelated policy goals, CISOs risk inheriting compliance obligations far beyond their technical remit — a trend already visible in EU digital regulation.
Track how evolving definitions of 'cybersecurity' in US and EU legislation may expand your compliance scope and resource requirements.
Regulatory scope creep could soon make CISOs responsible for content-moderation and competition issues, not just technical security.
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