A cybersecurity deresponsibilization framework & coefficient

Many Governments responsibilize their citizens when it comes to taking care of the cybersecurity of their own information and devices. Governments provide a great deal of excellent advice and expect citizens to follow it, being willing to deal with the aftermath without much direct support if they fail to do so. Given cybercrime’s growing victimhood, governments might consider deresponsibilising their citizens by using a range of interventions. At present, there is little guidance to inform this kind of endeavor. Here, we propose a deresponsibilization intervention framework and coefficient calculus. We calculated this coefficient for a number of countries based on their governments’ cybersecurity strategy documents. The framework provides guidance to governments wanting to deresponsibilise their citizens and the country coefficient helps them to compare themselves to other countries’ governments.