October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The White House has framed cyber threats as an economic threat as well as a matter of national security. Obama has hailed the White House’s cybersecurity framework as “a model of public-private cooperation” Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and her top lieutenants have made digital issues an integral part of their economic policy work. The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission issued a policy statement outlining a framework for companies to communicate with one another about cyber threats without running afoul of antitrust laws.”]

