ABSTRACT
Since the late 1980s, countries around the world have experienced the effects of the information revolution in radically different ways. National responses to cyber threats and to transformations of both economy and infrastructure brought about by the information revolution have been uniquely affected by different developmental episodes over time. This chapter outlines the broad shape of cyber policy efforts and describes the national experiences of countries often at the heart of discourse on international security and the digital domain. It analyses the experiences of two Western security actors— the UK and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Information security policy that aims to address issues of both national security and political stability must address ideas as much as it must consider technical security. The UK has faced less in the way of highly visible or disruptive realization episodes that have shaped national policy and institutional development than has the United States.
