Internet insecurity is also a selling point for the several authoritarian countries seeking to undermine trust in the free and open Internet model and replace it with a state-controlled, “sovereign” version. This argument matters because Internet insecurity is a national security issue for the United States and every other nation. This report argues that the US private sector’s unique influence on global Internet infrastructure gives it an opportunity and responsibility to improve Internet security, and that the US government should better collaborate with those actors and leverage that influence. But Internet governance is now largely privatized. The US government was the exclusive driver of Internet development for its first twenty-four years, and states continue to shape the Internet today through regulation, capacity-building, and direct participation in Internet processes. This infrastructural influence, spanning companies like Internet service providers and cloud services providers, is also underappreciated in US policy. The private sector’s influence on the Internet’s shape and behavior-and, therefore, its security-is enormous yet understudied.
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