ABSTRACT
Cybersecurity encompasses a range of measures and controls designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information processed and stored by computer systems. It concerns multiple actors starting with computer users, cybersecurity specialists as well as malicious actors. These actors form an intricate network, and an ecosystem system perspective is well suited to investigate participants and their relationships in this network. The objective of this chapter is to map and to analyse the Latvian cybersecurity ecosystem. The knowledge of the ecosystem helps to understand potential cybersecurity threats and resources available to tackle these threats. Enterprise modelling is used as a research method to identify ecosystem participants and their intentions. The ecosystem resilience is determined by analysing its model. The ecosystem models show the role of governmental and educational institutions as well as business in ensuring the overall cybersecurity resilience. Links between Latvian cybersecurity ecosystem and European and global activities are identified. The ecosystem models are operationalised by analysis of cybersecurity-related activities in Latvia. The analysis highlights strengths and limitations of the Latvian cybersecurity ecosystem.
