Absent at Munich: Placing cybersecurity on the main stage of geopolitics

Sorin Ducaru, DefenseNews (USA)
Every year, the Munich Security Conference brings together heads of state, leaders of multinational organizations and private companies to discuss the world’s most pressing security issues. And every year, cybersecurity gets short shrift because policymakers are more comfortable with a traditional approach to geopolitics, rather than introducing cyber into the debate. Yet, this demonstrates that our security approach remains overwhelmingly focused on traditional physical capabilities, even though we are increasingly facing a digital battlefield with the potential for devastating impacts in the real world.