The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (886 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01LMU3KNA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 278 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Secretary of Homeland Security“Alexander Klimburg provides a chilling but well-informed and readable tour of cyber interdependence. Reading it is well worth the effort. This book is indispensable—not only for national security officials formulating policies on cyber conflict, cyber crime and cyber governance, but for any reader seeking a strong grounding in this critically important material and what it means for our global future.”—Michael Chertoff, former U.S. Recommended for anyone interested in international affairs.”—Library Journal“An excellent primer on cyberwarfare. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University and author of The Future of Power“Klimburg is exceedingly qualified
He splits his time between Boston, Vienna and The Hague. He has acted as an advisor to a number of governments and international organizations on cybersecurity strategy and internet governance, and has participated in various national, international, NATO and EU policy groups. Alexander Klimburg is a program
Anyone interested in our growing global vulnerabilities should read this book.”—Joseph S. At stake are not only our personal data or the electrical grid, but the Internet as we know it today—and with it the very existence of open and democratic societies. Klimburg is a leading voice in the conversation on the implications of this dangerous shift, and in The Darkening Web, he explains why we underestimate the consequences of states’ ambitions to project power in cyberspace at our peril: Not only have hacking and cyber operations fundamentally changed the nature of political conflict—ensnaring states in a struggle to maintain a precarious peace that could rapidly collapse into all-out war—but the rise of covert influencing and information warfare has enabled these same global powers to create and disseminate their own distorted versions of reality in which anything is possible. Nye, Jr., author of The Future of PowerNo single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Blending anecdote with argument, Klimburg brings us face-to-face with the range of threats the struggle for cyberspace presents, from an apocalyptic scenario of debilitated civilian infrastructure to a 1984-like erosion of privacy and freedom of expression. Focusing on different approaches to cyber-conf