Myriam Dunn Cavelty

Cyber-Security and Threat Politics (eBook, PDF)

US Efforts to Secure the Information Age

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how cyber-threats are constructed and propelled onto the political agenda, with a specific focus on the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134086702
• Artikelnr.: 42980280

Autorenporträt

Myriam Dunn Cavelty is lecturer and head of the new risks research unit at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Information Age and Cyber
Threats
Shifting Meanings and Interpretations 2. Politics and Threat Construction
Theoretical Underpinnings 3. The Hostile Intelligence Threat, Data Security, and Encryption Set the Stage 4. Asymmetric Vulnerabilities and the Double
Edged Sword of Information Warfare
Developments in the Military Domain 5. Critical Infrastructures and Homeland Security 6. Securing the Information Age: Failed Securitisation or a New Logic of Security? 7. Cyber
Threats and Security in the Information Age
Issues and Implications