McCrary Institute evaluates economic levers to encourage cyber investments, impose costs on adversaries

The McCrary Institute lays out steps the incoming Trump administration should take to build on current federal cyber efforts to impose costs on adversaries and change the economics of investing in security, in a recent report.

“Why have cyber threats remained so persistent? It is because the economics in cyberspace tend to favor the attackers,” the report says. The report was written by McCrary senior fellow Kiran Sridhar and executive director Frank Cilluffo. Sridhar is the head of strategic...