Security in Cyberspace Targeting Nations, Infrastructures, Individuals

Today, the Internet has become a source of information that no country or company can forgo. It is not only used to communicate or entertain, but most importantly to operate utilities and public services such as banking or air traffic. As the reliance on computer networks across societies and economies keeps growing, so do security risks in cyberspace - referred to as "cybersecurity."

Cybersecurity means protecting information and control systems from those who seek to compromise them. It also involves actors, both malicious or protective, policies and their societal consequences. This collection of essays provides a better understanding of the risks, perceptions, and myths that surround cybersecurity by looking at it from three different levels of analysis: the sovereign state, the infrastructure and stakeholders of the Internet, and the individual. The essays explore such issues as information ownership, censorship, cyberwars, cyberterrorism, privacy, and rebellion, bringing together expert knowledge from computer science and the social sciences with case studies. It reviews existing policies and practices and discusses the threats and benefits of living in an increasingly networked world. This authoritative analysis of one of the most controversial and compelling security debates of the twenty-first century will appeal to scholars and practitioners interested in security, international relations and policymaking.

List of Abbreviations
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Carlo Schaerf

List of Contributors

Introduction – Security in Cybersapce
Giampiero Giacomello

Part One: The Nation

Chapter 1: The 'State(s)' of Cybersecurity
Rossella Mattioli

Chapter 2: Reducing Uncertainties in Cyberspace through Confidence and Capacity Building Measures
Patryk Pawlak

Chapter 3: Wikileaks and Cyberspace
Judith Reppy

Chapter 4: Leaks: Securing Communications and Achieving Nuclear Zero
Bruce Larkin

Chapter 5: Establishing Norms of Behavior in Cyberspace: The Chinese Viewpoint
Chunmei Kang

Part Two: The Infrastructure and The Individual

Chapter 6: Einstein on the Breach: Surveillance Technology, Cybersecurity and Organizational Change
Milton Mueller and Andreas Kuehn

Chapter 7: Artificial or 'Legitimate' Barriers to Internet Governance?”
Francesco Giacomini and Laura Cordani

Chapter 8: Public-Private Partnerships:
A 'Soft' Approach to Cybersecurity? Views from the European Union
Maria Grazia Porcedda

Chapter 9: Targeting One's Ideal Audience:
Self-Presentation Practices among Extreme Nationalists on Social Networks
Andra Siibak
Bibliography
Index

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