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Cybersecurity and Cyberwar By P.W. Singer

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar View By P.W. Singer

Title:Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
Author:P.W. Singer
Format:Kindle Edition
Page:320 pages
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A generation ago, cyberspace was just a term from science fiction, used to describe the nascent network of computers linking a few university labs Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally depends on the Internet And the cybersecurity issues that result challenge literally everyone politicians wrestling with everyt A generation ago, cyberspace was just a term from science fiction, used to describe the nascent network of computers linking a few university labs Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally depends on the Internet And the cybersecurity issues that result challenge literally everyone politicians wrestling with everything from cybercrime to online freedom generals protecting the nation from new forms of attack, while planning new cyberwars business executives defending firms from once unimaginable threats, and looking to make money off of them lawyers and ethicists building new frameworks for right and wrong Most of all, cybersecurity issues affect us as individuals We face new questions in everything from our rights and responsibilities as citizens of both the online and real world to simply how to protect ourselves and our families from a new type of danger And, yet there is perhaps no issue that has grown so important, so quickly, and that touches so many, that remains so poorly understood In Cybersecurity and CyberWar What Everyone Needs to Know, New York Times best selling author P W Singer and noted cyber expert Allan Friedman team up to provide the kind of easy to read, yet deeply informative resource book that has been missing on this crucial issue of 21st century life Written in a lively, accessible style, filled with engaging stories and illustrative anecdotes, the book is structured around the key question areas of cyberspace and its security how it all works, why it all matters, and what can we do Along the way, they take readers on a tour of the important and entertaining issues and characters of cybersecurity, from the Anonymous hacker group and the Stuxnet computer virus to the new cyber units of the Chinese and US militaries Cybersecurity and CyberWar What Everyone Needs to Know is the definitive account on the subject for us all, which comes not a moment too soon


about Author

Peter Warren Singer is Strategist and Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation He previously was Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution and the youngest scholar named Senior Fellow in Brookings s 99 year history He has been named by CNN to their New Guard List of the Next Generation of Newsmakers, by the Smithsonian Institution Nationa Peter Warren Singer is Strategist and Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation He previously was Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution and the youngest scholar named Senior Fellow in Brookings s 99 year history He has been named by CNN to their New Guard List of the Next Generation of Newsmakers, by the Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery as one of the 100 leading innovators in the nation, and by Foreign Policy Magazine to their Top 100 Global Thinkers List, of the people whose ideas most influenced the world that year In his personal capacity, Singer served as coordinator of the Obama 08 campaign s defense policy task force, as a consultant for the US Department of Defense and FBI, and has advised a host of entertainment programs, including the video game series Call of Duty and Metal Gear Solid, movies like Traitor, Whistleblower, Line of Sight, and Battleship, and the TV series The West Wing, 24, Curiosity, and Strikeback



thumbnailTitle: Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
Posted by:P.W. Singer
Published :2016-02-26T02:02+01:00
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Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
320 pagesP.W. Singer

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