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Cyber threat : the rise of information geopolitics in U.S. national security / Chris Bronk.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Praeger Security International (Series)Publisher: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781440834998
  • 1440834997
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cyber threat.DDC classification:
  • 355/.03302854678 23
LOC classification:
  • TK5105.8854 .B76 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
A new great game -- Checking Facebook on an iPhone -- Tunis, room 641A, and the politics of the information society -- The great cyberwar of 2007 -- Securing cyberspace in the homeland -- A commission, a review, but little policy -- Hard cyber power, from Stuxnet to Shamoon -- Diplomacy, social software, and the Arab Spring -- Espionage, radical transparency, and national security -- Snowden -- Cybercrime and punishment -- Virtual policy in the real world.
Summary: The book addresses a chronology of events starting in 2005 to explain the international security dimension of cyber threat and vulnerability. It begins with an explanation of contemporary information technology, including the economics of contemporary cloud, mobile, and control systems software as well as how computing and networking -- principally the Internet -- are interwoven in the concept of cyberspace. Author Chris Bronk then documents the national struggles with controlling information resources and protecting computer systems. The book considers major security cases such as Wikileaks, Stuxnet, the cyber attack on Estonia, Shamoon, and the recent exploits of the Syrian Electronic Army. Readers will understand how cyber security in the 21st century is far more than a military or defense issue, but is a critical matter of international law, diplomacy, commerce, and civil society as well.
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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-225) and index.

A new great game -- Checking Facebook on an iPhone -- Tunis, room 641A, and the politics of the information society -- The great cyberwar of 2007 -- Securing cyberspace in the homeland -- A commission, a review, but little policy -- Hard cyber power, from Stuxnet to Shamoon -- Diplomacy, social software, and the Arab Spring -- Espionage, radical transparency, and national security -- Snowden -- Cybercrime and punishment -- Virtual policy in the real world.

The book addresses a chronology of events starting in 2005 to explain the international security dimension of cyber threat and vulnerability. It begins with an explanation of contemporary information technology, including the economics of contemporary cloud, mobile, and control systems software as well as how computing and networking -- principally the Internet -- are interwoven in the concept of cyberspace. Author Chris Bronk then documents the national struggles with controlling information resources and protecting computer systems. The book considers major security cases such as Wikileaks, Stuxnet, the cyber attack on Estonia, Shamoon, and the recent exploits of the Syrian Electronic Army. Readers will understand how cyber security in the 21st century is far more than a military or defense issue, but is a critical matter of international law, diplomacy, commerce, and civil society as well.

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