Leadership for Cyber Security in Public-Private Relations

Nation states published cyber security strategies few years ago. The reaching of the targets presented in the strategies often requires interaction and collaboration with the information and communication system and services providers. Most of the providers are global or local business actors. This challenges the implementation of the strategies. Legislations, the forming of agreements as well as the defining of requirements for products and systems are typical means for enhancing and controlling cyber security in society. This paper addresses the implementation of cyber security strategy from social systems and the leadership activities point of view. Especially, the paper studies leadership activities with the implementation of cyber security strategy in the public-private relations area. A preliminary leadership matrix model is presented for illustrating and classifying activities typically related to leadership activities in an organization: governance, leadership, managing and administration. A social system model is referred for increasing understanding about the influence of these activities on complex systems involving human activities. The leadership matrix model and social system model are applied in a case study for demonstrating the approach. The empirical data of the case study consist of a cyber strategy implementation plan. The paper classifies the activities of the implementation plan according to the leadership matrix model by using the content analysis research technique. This illustrates the focus of the implementation plan from the leadership activities point of view. These results are studied with the social system model for having a preliminary view of the influence of the implementation plan. This preliminary view is compared with the evaluations of the impacts of the activities of the implementation plan.