AUERSWALD
AND LAPORTE: PROTECTING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SPP Professors Phil Auerswald
and Todd La Porte, along with two colleagues, Lewis Branscomb
at Harvard/UCSD
and Erwann Michel-Kerjan at Wharton, recently published
an article in Issues in Science and Technology, a publication
of the National Academies and the University of Texas at
Dallas. Called “The Challenge of Protecting Critical
Infrastructure,” the piece recommends that the government
engage in more deeply rooted collaboration with the private
sector to deal with terrorist threats.
“It
provides a good overview of the larger project
on which we've been collaborating that will
result shortly in a book from Cambridge University
Press,” notes Auerswald, the director
of the Center for Science and Technology
Policy at George Mason. The volume will be
titled Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response:
How Private Decisions Affect Public Vulnerability.
In it, the editors, along with leading authorities
from academia and the private sector, will
talk about such topics as how rigid and limited
public/private partnerships must give way
to flexible, more deeply rooted collaborations
between public and private actors, in the
interest of national security; and how, in
order to protect critical infrastructure,
the implementation of steps to reduce the
vulnerability of privately owned and corporate
assets depends primarily on private-sector
knowledge and action, even though the responsibility
for setting goals rests primarily with the
government. Professor Sean Gorman, an Internet
security expert who is on the SPP faculty,
will contribute to the collaboration.
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