In Kaplan’s ‘Dark Territory,’ Inertia Governs American Cyber Defense

In Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, Fred Kaplan positions cyberspace as an ungoverned, dark territory in 2016. But defenses of digital activities are not lacking for technical reasons, rather because of an absence of government action. Kaplan challenges the reader to think about the consequences of leaving defense of American cyber space ungoverned, and if it is to be governed, by whom and how.