1. Edgar Whitley e.a.whitley@lse.ac.uk
Assessing ICT security risks in socio-technical systems: Policy implications
Edgar Whitley

2. Edgar Whitley e.a.whitley@lse.ac.uk
Assessing ICT security risks in socio-technical systems: Policy implications
Edgar Whitley

3. Edgar Whitley e.a.whitley@lse.ac.uk
Assessing ICT security risks in socio-technical systems: Policy implications
Edgar Whitley

4. Socio-technical systems and policy implications

5. What is socio-technical?
Governance
Actor Network Theory
Data Shaving
Legal
Management
Ethics
Usability / people aspects
Ecosystem

6. Something that starts with the technical
Technology, organisations, people
“Add in” the social
Technology “among the people”

7. Socio-technical is … Tavistock approach Social shaping Human factors
Cybernetics
Actor network theory
Socio-materiality …

8. Social and technical

9. Humans and non-humans

10. Science and society

11. Facts and values

12. Due process and the politics of nature
Tendency for politics to short circuit ‘any and all questioning as to the nature of the complex bonds between science and societies, through the invocation of Science as the only salvation from the prison of the social world’ (p. 13)

13. Towards a ‘common world’
Need to acknowledge that in many cases, scientific consensus does not (yet) exist
Need for (political) action
Need to use science before there is consensus in the technical community

14. The politics of nature (Latour)
Developing the critique of modernity
Facts (What ‘science’ “does”)
Scientific controversies
Scientific institutions
Values (What ‘society’ “does”)
Consultation
Hierarchy

15. Fact / Value distinction (1)
Facts
Values
Perplexity
Consultation
Institution
Hierarchy

16. Fact / Value distinction (2)
Perplexity
Consultation
How many are we?
Institution
Hierarchy
Can we live together?

17. References
Latour, B. (2004). The politics of nature: How to bring the sciences into democracy (C. Porter, tran.), Harvard University Press Cambridge, MA.
Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the social: An introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, Oxford University Press Oxford.

18. Application of Latour’s model
Whitley, E. A., and Hosein, I. R. (2008). Doing the politics of technological decision making: Due process and the debate about identity cards in the UK, European Journal of Information Systems 17(6), 668–677.

19. Socio-technical systems and the Tavistock Institute https://en
Enid Mumford: Applying sociotechnical systems to computer system design

20. “Victims”
Feedback we had received when using the phrase ‘victims of domestic violence’
Feminist language has changed on domestic abuse to speak about either "patriarchal violence" or "violence against women."  This helps to connect these instances of violence to larger systems of sexism, racism, etc.  It also gets away from reifying survivors of violence as "victims" - although there is no perfect language, since not all women survive.

21. MISQ Research curation
Securing digital assets