This is perhaps the new battlefield, in a virtual world, but closer than ever to a harsh and biting reality: cybersecurity. We need not look hard to find examples of this unleashed war, or cyberwar, in the past few years in which governments, hacktivists and hackers for-hire target industrial complexes (e.g. “Stuxnet”), perform corporate espionage (from East to West and vice versa), or, as of late, attack private companies (Sony) with devastating results, to name just a few. Cybersecurity is a mammoth booming business, one of the fastest growing industries in the world. However, as the authors point out, this is no longer the stuff of science fiction or solely a concern for industries, companies or governments. It also involves you, the Average Joe user, that is, just about anybody who connects to the Internet, by any means: enterprise networks, PCs, tablets, smartphones. With this book you will find not only answers to all your questions regarding this new reality of our times, but you will also find information you never knew you had to know. The book consists of three parts describing in an informative and instructive way how it all works, starting with the definition and scope of cyberspace and the Internet, why cybersecurity matters, its global reach and the US approach to cyberwar, and finally, what we can do to protect ourselves and the government and institutional roles in this new frontier.

Cybersecurity and cyberwar : What everyone needs to know®. P.W. Singer, Allan Friedman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

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