Cybersecurity: Putting Indigenous Peoples First

Despite rising awareness of the critical importance of Indigenous data sovereignty principles for the empowerment of Indigenous communities, there is minimal evidence of any engagement from cybersecurity policy makers or researchers to actualise these goals. This paper reports preliminary findings from the first phase of a more extensive research programme investigating cybersecurity in relation to Indigenous communities, which analysed national cybersecurity policies in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.