Big tech companies are shaping publicness and public-private relations around cybersecurity. Microsoft is one example, as it problematises state-led cybersecurity activities and proposes governance measures to establish the tech sector as authoritative "first responders." In this episode, Tobias Liebetrau explains how this rearticulation of public-private relations leads to the emergence of a political subject for whom security is not solely the right of a citizen secured by the state but also a customer service provided as per a service agreement.