Constructing Cybersecurity - Power, Expertise and the Internet Security Industry

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Whiting is a Senior Lecturer in Security Studies at Birmingham City University Klappentext This book provides a critique of dominant cybersecurity knowledge that draws upon original constructivist analysis of the expert discourse within the internet security industry. The book argues that this expertise helps explain the probematic common sense that sees cybersecurity conflated with national security. Zusammenfassung This book provides a critique of dominant cybersecurity knowledge that draws upon original constructivist analysis of the expert discourse within the internet security industry. The book argues that this expertise helps explain the probematic common sense that sees cybersecurity conflated with national security. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1 Cybersecurity knowledge: Cohesion, contestation and constructivism2 Security dispositifs and security professionals3 Constructing the milieu4 Constructing cyber-threats5 Constructing cybersecurityConclusionNotesBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Whiting, Whiting Andrew
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781526123329
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2332-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Studies in Design and Material; Manchester University Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, International Relations, Internet: general works, Network Security, COMPUTERS / Security / Network Security