Cyber space is easily the most complex thing humans have ever created.
With billions of people and devices all connected together,
vulnerability and compromise are inevitable. The complexity continues
to grow, and with it comes the emergent insecurity brought by an
ever-developing frontier where digital devices and connected people
meet. Security challenges present themselves increasingly often and
with ever-greater impacts. This is not going to change anytime soon.
Although the internet has transformed communication, business, and
social life for the better, the construct of 'cyber space' is
incredibly fragile and presents endless risk. Connecting every corner
of our lives to those of billions across the world, the frontier is
slender between the good and the bad, benefit and catastrophe, real
and fake, security and insecurity. Cyber security advice can be
confusing, contradictory, and sometimes utterly detached from reality.
Too easily, people feel guilty for not knowing what to do, or failing
to live up to expectations. People, particularly business leaders and
policy makers, must daily make security-sensitive decisions, sometimes
unknowingly, without being security experts.
_Securing the Digital Frontier_ doesn't offer easy answers, but
instead explains sixteen dimensions of this dynamic problem and its
current partial solutions. The strong technology of encryption has
become commonplace, and is a huge benefit if deployed well: but how
can you tell? Programming errors give rise to security problems, but
why can we not eliminate them? Privacy is tied up with security, but
can the two work against each other? Cyber space is international: how
can domestic laws protect us? And what happens when those laws come
into conflict with technologies like encryption? Why do you need a
punctuation symbol and a capital letter in your password, anyway?
Through a grasp of the big picture, through technical and human
perspectives, we can begin to explore ways to unwind some of the
complexity and find ways to contain the risk.
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Cyber Security for Responsible Citizens and Strategic Thinkers
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780198920151
Publisert
2025
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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