ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes an alternative conceptual approach to national cybersecurity, based on epidemiology. Medicine provides cyber researchers with a rich history of data collection, analysis, and application dating back hundreds of years. The chapter examines the history of progress in public health with a focus on the spread of pathogens and draws out parallels useful for network administrators and policymakers to combat an increasingly dynamic problem set. By engaging in cross-disciplinary analysis, cybersecurity researchers can learn new analytic techniques and build new sets of best practices to solve the complex problems nation states confront in cyberspace.
