While PPPs are becoming more predominant around the world, the concept is not unique to recent years; however, the precise process of implementing a PPP is distinctive and particularly important. Throughout history, there have been numerous examples of successful and failed attempts at creating a PPP. As discovered from the literature, if there is to be a successful PPP between the government and the private sector that operates within cyberspace, there must be a PPP founded on four essential elements: trust, clear guidance based upon contracts or some other legal enactment, a bottom-up approach for operational structure, and community involvement within and surrounding both the public and private entities. From reviewing surveys, interviews, case studies, speeches and reports conducted from prominent cyber professionals in both the public and private sectors, the US is headed in an encouraging direction for implementing a successful PPP. There still needs to be a greater extent of trust formulated, but that will take time. Nevertheless, as soon as the US government begins dictating how and when companies operate in regards to the cyber domain without allowing for an open dialogue on equal standing, then the communication between the parties will weaken and the PPP will ultimately fail, as it had previously for other countries like the Netherlands. The President said it best himself, in regards to where the US needs to head in a cyber PPP: “There’s only one way to defend America from these cyber threats, and that is through government and industry working together, sharing appropriate information as true partners” (emphasis added).