this requires government involvement in creating standards on the one hand they can ensure that the process of how personal consumer information is shared among companies is transparent on the other hand public bodies are well placed to ensure the delicate balance between security and the necessary openness of cyberspace cybersecurity is increasingly viewed as a public good that can only be generated through binding regulation while smes that can meet standards will benefit creating an additional requirement for participating in trade means firms that cannot comply will be left further behind microsoft developed and shared good practices in the secure development lifecycle the open web application security project a nonprofit organization develops voluntary security standards that are open and free to use in switzerland the reporting and analysis centre for information assurance melani a government agency provides support for the security of computer systems the internet and protection of critical national infrastructures