[PDI Working Paper No.2] Building cybersecurity governance in the US and responding to ‘WannaCry’

Geon Sik Hong (Full-time Researcher at the Institute of National Interest, Chung-Ang University)

* This paper was presented at Jiam Workshop #3.

Abstract 

In May 2017, the rapid spread of the WannaCry ransomware in cyberspace terrified the world. WannaCry spread indiscriminately around the world, encrypting and rendering hundreds of thousands of computers in hospitals, schools, business, and home obsolete. In the security governance framework, the particularity of the WannaCry crisis is that its resolution was based on cooperation at the governmental, private and international levels. The US Department of Homeland Security set up an international scale partnership system with countries directly affected by cyberattacks such as the UK, Japan, and Australia. This study follows the US cybersecurity governance construction process during the WannaCry crisis resolution and analyzes the actual response to the WannaCry incident.

• Original paper (in Korean):  [PDI Working Paper No. 2] Building cybersecurity governance in the US and responding to ‘WannaCry’