Public-Private Resilience: State vs. Private Conceptions of Security Risk Management in Danish Cyber-based Critical Infrastructures

Securitisation and the related vocabulary of state-centric notions of government appear negligible within a shifting digital security architecture, which is mainly characterized by fragmentation of political authority. As a reflection of vertical fragmentation of the conceptual boundaries of national security concerns and cyber crime, and horizontal neo-liberal commodification of risk in critical infrastructures, shared social responsibilities across national-transnational and public-private stakeholders become a key building block in protection policies and practices. This fairly novel political transition reflects the evolving distinctive ontological and epistemological virtual reality of cyberspace, redefining the roles and responsibilities of both government and private actors. Taking an offset in the foci mentioned in recent Danish national policy documents, this paper pursues this central problem statement in relation to cyber-based critical infrastructures with an aim to map and inform accountability in business crime risk management policies and instrumentation.