Abstract
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand the emerging challenges of cybersecurity governance by analyzing the internet’s early history.Design/methodology/approachTracing the design and management of early internet and network security technologies in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s.FindingsThe US Department of Defense separated the research and management regimes for networks and network security, with the latter restricted to military networks. As such, the absence of cybersecurity technologies on the early internet was not an oversight, but a necessary compromise. This ordering of networks and security had enduring technological, political and even cultural consequences, which are breaking down today.Social implicationsPolitical, technological and metaphoric distinctions between networks and security should be challenged; cybersecurity will transform internet governance.Originality/valueNew historical sources and analysis provide a novel perspective on contemporary challenges of cybersecurity governance.
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