Digital Disaster, Cyber Security, and the Copenhagen School

This article is devoted to an analysis of cyber security. This concept became prominent in the post-Cold War agenda due to the mixture of technological innovations with changing geopolitical conditions. Adopting the framework of security theory, the article proposes that cyber security is a distinct sector with a particular constellation of threats and referent objects. "These referent objects are articulated as threatened through three distinct forms of securitizations: hypersecuritization, everyday security practices, and technifications." Using the case-study of a massive cyber attack on Estonia, the applicability of this framework is also shown for commercial institutions.