CISI Framework: Digital Sovereignty and Cyber Behavior in 10 Countries

Ada Peter's study applies the Critical-Infrastructure Sovereignty Index (CISI) and a cyberfarming typology to assess digital sovereignty and state cyber behavior. The analysis covers 10 countries, scoring 16 critical infrastructure domains per country and classifying states based on eight dimensions of cyber activity. The document presents a sovereignty-behavior matrix revealing four archetypes of cyber statecraft, offering a diagnostic tool for policymakers.

Use Cases

• Classifying state cyber postures based on the eight-dimensional cyberfarming behavior typology described.
• Analyzing the relationship between infrastructure sovereignty (CISI scores) and offensive cyber intensity mentioned in the description.
• Identifying national vulnerability profiles using the sovereignty-behavior matrix of four archetypes presented.

Strengths

• Applies a structured, multi-framework analysis (CISI and cyberfarming typology) to a complex topic.
• Provides comparative data for 10 countries across 16 critical infrastructure domains.
• Offers normalized sovereignty index scores between 0 and 1 for quantitative comparison.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 16.7 KB DOCX file, indicating a very limited scope, likely containing summary analysis rather than raw data.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; the underlying quantitative data is not directly accessible.
• The analysis is based on a specific, non-standardized framework (CISI), which may limit direct comparability with other studies.

Provenance

Source

Ada Peter via figshare

Collection Method

Empirical assessment using the CISI framework and a cyberfarming behavior typology.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-20 05:38:23

Geography

United States, China, Russia, India, Iran, Israel, Brazil, Nigeria, Germany, Vietnam