Nonprofit initiative aims to improve governance structure for internet security

The Global Cyber Alliance is launching an initiative aimed at improving the governance structure that supports the security of the internet’s core capabilities, according to president and CEO Philip Reitinger.

“The internet is unlike any other infrastructure,” Reitinger told Inside Cybersecurity. He said the responsibility for maintaining highways, power and water “all rolls back to the federal government,” while much of the responsibility for maintaining the internet currently falls on nonprofits.

GCA launched the Common Good Cyber Initiative on Jan....