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The Roles Governments Play in Cybersecurity

When I was 17 years old, I started working on a 4-year Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in political science. I was very interested in several facets of political science, including federalism, division of powers in government, how and why elections work, the theory of authorization, international relations, and political philosophy. Later, I also studied computer science and completed an MBA. When my career took me deeper and deeper into cybersecurity, I had no idea that studying political science would turn out to be so valuable in this field. Back then, reading works by Plato, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Karl Marx, and George Orwell hardly seemed applicable to computers or the ...

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