ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that cybersecurity politics is best understood as running on a continuum between securitization tendencies and technological routine depending on the context and sub-issue under scrutiny. It shows how securitization theory has evolved to become more applicable to cybersecurity. Everyday security practices are a specific grammar of the cybersecurity sector, in that securitizing actors mobilize individuals’ experiences of insecurity for both ensuring their partnership and compliance, but also to connect hypersecuritizing scenarios to their lived experiences. The link between information technology and national security was firmly established in military writings in the time after the Second World War and remained uncontested. The cybersecurity danger discourse is about a diverse set of threat forms: ranging from computer viruses and other malicious software to cybercrime activity to the categories of cyberterror and cyberwar. Cybersecurity emerges as empirical challenge to securitization theory in multiple ways.
