Full Description
This book provides an up-to-date, accessible guide to the growing threats in cyberspace that affects everyone from private individuals to businesses to national governments.
Cyber Warfare: How Conflicts In Cyberspace Are Challenging America and Changing The World is a comprehensive and highly topical one-stop source for cyber conflict issues that provides scholarly treatment of the subject in a readable format. The book provides a level-headed, concrete analytical foundation for thinking about cybersecurity law and policy questions, covering the entire range of cyber issues in the 21st century, including topics such as malicious software, encryption, hardware intrusions, privacy and civil liberties concerns, and other interesting aspects of the problem.
In Part I, the author describes the nature of cyber threats, including the threat of cyber warfare. Part II describes the policies and practices currently in place, while Part III proposes optimal responses to the challenges we face. The work should be considered essential reading for national and homeland security professionals as well as students and lay readers wanting to understand of the scope of our shared cybersecurity problem.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 The Transformation of Cyberspace and Cyber Conflict
Part I—The Nature of Conflict in Cyberspace
Chapter 2 Of Viruses and Vulnerabilities
Chapter 3 Nations in Conflict
Chapter 4 Cyber War and the Law
Chapter 5 Cyber-Insurgency
Part II—Protecting the Web
Chapter 6 The Fundamental Problem of Identity
Chapter 7 Cybercrime
Chapter 8 Cyber Conflict and the Constitution
Chapter 9 Dataveillance and Cyber Conflict
Chapter 10 Privacy for the Cyber Age
Chapter 11 No More Secrets
Chapter 12 Encryption and Wiretapping
Chapter 13 The Devil in the System: Hardware Failures
Part III—Enduring Questions
Chapter 14 The Economics of Cybersecurity
Chapter 15 The Role of Government Regulating the Private Sector
Chapter 16 Protecting America's Critical Infrastructure
Chapter 17 The Organization of the United States Government
Chapter 18 Challenging Questions of Policy and Organization
Chapter 19 The "Borderless" International Internet
Part IV—The Future and Beyond
Chapter 20 What the Future Holds
Chapter 21 Concluding Thoughts
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
