Who Coordinates U.S. Cyber Defense? A Co-Authorship Network Analysis of Joint Cybersecurity Advisories (2024--2025)
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| author | Canbaz, M. Abdullah Otal, Hakan Unlu, Tugce Alhussein, Nour Nussbaum, Brian |
| author_facet | Canbaz, M. Abdullah Otal, Hakan Unlu, Tugce Alhussein, Nour Nussbaum, Brian |
| contents | Cyber threats increasingly demand joint responses, yet the organizational dynamics behind multi-agency cybersecurity collaboration remain poorly understood. Understanding who leads, who bridges, and how agencies coordinate is critical for strengthening both U.S. homeland security and allied defense efforts. In this study, we construct a co-authorship network from nine Joint Cybersecurity Advisories (CSAs) issued between November 2024 and August 2025. We map 41 agencies and 442 co-authoring ties to analyze the structure of collaboration. We find a tightly knit U.S. triad -- CISA, FBI, and NSA -- densely connected with Five Eyes and select European allies. Degree centrality identifies CISA and FBI as coordination hubs, while betweenness highlights NSA, the UK's NCSC, and Australia's ASD-ACSC as key bridges linking otherwise fragmented clusters. By releasing the first replicable dataset and network analysis of CSAs, we provide new empirical evidence on how collaborative cybersecurity signals are organized and where strategic influence is concentrated. |
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| spellingShingle | Who Coordinates U.S. Cyber Defense? A Co-Authorship Network Analysis of Joint Cybersecurity Advisories (2024--2025) Canbaz, M. Abdullah Otal, Hakan Unlu, Tugce Alhussein, Nour Nussbaum, Brian Cryptography and Security Computers and Society Cyber threats increasingly demand joint responses, yet the organizational dynamics behind multi-agency cybersecurity collaboration remain poorly understood. Understanding who leads, who bridges, and how agencies coordinate is critical for strengthening both U.S. homeland security and allied defense efforts. In this study, we construct a co-authorship network from nine Joint Cybersecurity Advisories (CSAs) issued between November 2024 and August 2025. We map 41 agencies and 442 co-authoring ties to analyze the structure of collaboration. We find a tightly knit U.S. triad -- CISA, FBI, and NSA -- densely connected with Five Eyes and select European allies. Degree centrality identifies CISA and FBI as coordination hubs, while betweenness highlights NSA, the UK's NCSC, and Australia's ASD-ACSC as key bridges linking otherwise fragmented clusters. By releasing the first replicable dataset and network analysis of CSAs, we provide new empirical evidence on how collaborative cybersecurity signals are organized and where strategic influence is concentrated. |
| title | Who Coordinates U.S. Cyber Defense? A Co-Authorship Network Analysis of Joint Cybersecurity Advisories (2024--2025) |
| topic | Cryptography and Security Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20080 |