Constructing Cybersecurity : Power, Expertise and the Internet Security Industry (Manchester University Press)

Whiting, Andrew

Manchester University Press（2020/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 216 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526123329
• DDC分類 327

Full Description

Constructing cybersecurity adopts a constructivist approach to cybersecurity and problematises the state of contemporary knowledge within this field. Setting out by providing a concise overview of such knowledge this book subsequently adopts Foucauldian positions on power and security to highlight assumptions and limitations found herein. What follows is a detailed analysis of the discourse produced by various internet security companies demonstrating the important role that these security professionals play constituting and entrenching this knowledge by virtue of their specific epistemic authority. As a relatively new source within a broader security dispositif these security professionals have created relationships of mutual recognition and benefit with traditional political and security professionals.

Contents

Introduction
1 Cybersecurity knowledge: Cohesion, contestation and constructivism
2 Security dispositifs and security professionals
3 Constructing the milieu
4 Constructing cyber-threats
5 Constructing cybersecurity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography