June 2013

The Task Force recognizes that there are both considerable opportunities and perilous challenges in cyberspace. This report identifies guiding principles and makes policy recommendations to mobilize a coalition of old friends and rising cyber powers, private firms, NGOs, and individual users to defend, reinforce, and expand an Internet that is open, global, secure, and resilient. Now is the time for the United States, with its friends and allies, to ensure the Internet remains an open, global, secure, and resilient environment for users. Otherwise, many potential gains will be lost to political, economic, and strategic fighting over the shape of cyberspace.