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What Everyone Needs to Know
Oxford University Press
January 2014
On Sale: January 3, 2014
320 pages
ISBN: 0199918112
EAN: 9780199918119
Kindle: B00GJG6ZB2
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Non-Fiction
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 U.S. 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.
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