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What Is Cybersecurity For?

By Tim Stevens
Series: What Is It For?
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What Is Cybersecurity For? by Tim Stevens explores the complexities and nuances of cybersecurity, addressing its significance in the modern world. The book delves into the political, societal, and ethical dimensions of cybersecurity, offering insights into how it shapes our digital lives and the protection of information. It is an essential read for understanding the underlying motives and implications behind cybersecurity practices and policies.
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This book may appeal to you if you are intrigued by the complexities of cybersecurity and its implications for society today. Tim Stevens delves into the purpose and significance of cybersecurity, exploring how it shapes our digital and physical worlds. Whether you're a tech enthusiast or simply curious about how digital defences protect us, you'll appreciate the insightful analysis and thought-provoking perspectives provided.

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What Is Cybersecurity For?

Cybersecurity is one of the key practical and political challenges of our time. This book explains the complexities of global information systems, the challenges of providing security to users, societies, states and the international system, and the multitude of competing players and ambitions in this arena.

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How will protecting our digital infrastructure shape our future?

Cybersecurity is one of the key practical and political challenges of our time. It is at the heart of how modern societies survive and thrive, yet public understanding is still rudimentary: media portrayals of hoodie-wearing hackers accessing the Pentagon don't convey its complexity or significance to contemporary life.

What Is Cybersecurity For? addresses this gap, showing that the political dimension is as important as the technological one. It accessibly explains the complexities of global information systems, the challenges of providing security to users, societies, states, and the international system, and the multitude of competing players and ambitions in this arena.

Making the case for understanding it not only as a technical project, but as a crucial political one that links competing visions of what cybersecurity is for, it tackles the ultimate question: how can we do it better?

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529226959

Publisher: Bristol University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 March 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bristol University Press

Illustration: 2 Tables, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 158

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Computing & Technology Education & Reference Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs Science & Nature Series: What Is It For? Tim Stevens

About the Author

Tim Stevens is Reader in International Security at the Department of War Studies, King's College London, UK. He has published widely on the politics of cybersecurity, cyberwarfare and cyber conflict, and the relationship between technology and global security in academic articles, edited volumes, and has written two books. He is also editor of the book series Critical Issues in Digital Security and Society.

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