In this article, we show how Annemarie Mol's notion of ontological politics helps to open up the research agenda for cyber security in Critical Security Studies. The article hence seeks to further the debate about STS and Critical Security Studies. The article's main claim is that the concept of ontological politics enables an engagement with the complex and transformative dynamics of ICT and the new security actors and practices that shape security politics in the digital age. By examining the virulent attacks executed by the Mirai botnet – one of the world's largest, fiercest, and most enduring botnets – we point to four aspects of cyber security that attention to the ontological politics of cyber security attunes us to: the proliferation and entanglement of security agencies, actors, sites, and spaces. These aspects of cyber security, we argue, are becoming increasingly prominent alongside the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G network technology. In conclusion, we discuss the wider security theoretical and normative-democratic implications of an engagement with the ontological politics of security by exploring three avenues for additional conversation between ontological politics and Critical Security Studies.

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网络安全的本体论政治：新兴机构、参与者、站点和空间

在本文中，我们展示了 Annemarie Mol 的本体政治概念如何帮助开启关键安全研究中的网络安全研究议程。因此，本文试图进一步讨论关于 STS 和关键安全研究的辩论。这篇文章的主要主张是，本体政治的概念能够让人们参与到信息通信技术的复杂和变革性动态以及塑造数字时代安全政治的新安全参与者和实践中。通过研究 Mirai 僵尸网络（世界上最大、最凶猛和最持久的僵尸网络之一）所执行的恶意攻击，我们指出了网络安全的四个方面，对网络安全本体论政治的关注使我们适应：安全机构、参与者、站点和空间。我们认为，随着物联网 (IoT) 和 5G 网络技术的发展，网络安全的这些方面变得越来越突出。总之，我们通过探索本体政治和关键安全研究之间额外对话的三种途径，讨论了参与安全本体政治的更广泛的安全理论和规范民主影响。