Description
Cybercrime and Business: Strategies for Global Corporate Security examines the three most prevalent cybercrimes afflicting today's corporate security professionals: piracy, espionage, and computer hacking. By demonstrating how each of these threats evolved separately and then converged to form an ultra-dangerous composite threat, the book discusses the impact the threats pose and how the very technologies that created the problem can help solve it.Cybercrime and Business then offers viable strategies for how different types of businesses—from large multinationals to small start-ups—can respond to these threats to both minimize their losses and gain a competitive advantage. The book concludes by identifying future technological threats and how the models presented in the book can be applied to handling them.- Demonstrates how to effectively handle corporate cyber security issues using case studies from a wide range of companies around the globe- Highlights the regulatory, economic, cultural, and demographic trends businesses encounter when facing security issues- Profiles corporate security issues in major industrialized, developing, and emerging countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East
Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. Globalization, Business and Cybercrime3. The Environment for Cybercrime4. The Start Up Firm5. Small and Medium-sized Businesses6. The large Corporation7. The Joint Venture and Partnership8. IP and the Licensee9. Franchises10. The Subsidiary11. Mergers and Acquisitions12. Outsourcing 13. Conclusion: Strategic Directions for Global Business in a Cyber World
