Attribution and Knowledge Creation Assemblages in Cybersecurity Politics

Author(s): Florian Egloff, Myriam Dunn Cavelty
Journal Title: Journal of Cybersecurity
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2021

Attribution is central to cybersecurity politics. It establishes a link between technical occurrences and political consequences, ultimately creating cybersecurity “truths” with political consequences. In this Journal of Cybersecurity article, CSS’ Florian Egloff and Myriam Dunn Cavelty purport that the “truth” about cyber-incidents, established through attribution, is constructed through a knowledge creation process being neither value-free nor purely objective but built on assumptions and choices.

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