Routledge Companion to Global Cyber-Security Strategy

43CYBER SECURITY GOVERNANCE IN BRAZIL

Keeping silos or building bridges?

Louise Marie Hurel and Luisa Cruz Lobato

Introduction

The year is 2008. This was the very first time that the Brazilian national defense strategy recognized cyberspace as one of the strategic domains for the country’s defense and national security. At that time, cyber attacks were becoming notorious and ever more reflective of geopolitical tensions. One year earlier, Estonia had suffered a major cyber attack from Russia, followed later on by further Russian attacks in Georgia. Not that differently from the growing global concern with cyber security, Brazil had then started to witness what would become a decade of fundamental institutional developments aimed at consolidating ...