Law, policy, and technology cyberterrorism, information warfare, and Internet immobilization /

"This book provides relevant frameworks and best practices as well as current empirical research findings for professionals who want to improve their understanding of the impact of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructures and other information systems essential to the smooth running of society...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Gelbstein, Eduardo., Reich, Pauline C.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • The security practitioners' perspective
  • Economic, political and social threats in the information age
  • Critical information infrastructure and cyber-terrorism
  • Attackers: internal and external
  • Threats, vulnerability, uncertainty and information risk
  • ICT and security governance: doing the right things the right way (and well enough)
  • Concerns about what will happen next: should these things keep you awake at night?
  • To define or not to define: law and policy conundrums for the cybercrime, national security, international law and military law communities
  • Anonymity, actual incidents, cyber attacks and digital immobilization
  • Culture clashes: freedom, privacy, and government surveillance issues arising in relation to national security and internet use
  • What is cyberterrorism and how real is the threat?: a review of the academic literature, 1996-2009
  • Cyber-search and cyber-seizure: policy considerations of cyber operations and fourth amendment implications
  • Terrorism and the internet: do we need an international solution?
  • Case study: India - terrorism and terrorist use of the internet/technology
  • China's cyber tool: striving to attain electronic shi?
  • The United Kingdom's centre for the protection of national infrastructure: an evaluation of the UK government's response mechanism to cyber attacks on critical infrastructures.