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"Cyberspace is the global medium used to socialize, manage businesses, governments, and militaries, and secure personal, corporate, and government secrets. This book provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the policy and technology dimensions of cyberspace for the lay audience as well as computer science and political science students"--
List of contents
1. The emergence of cyberspace and its implications; 2. From the abacus to the computer; 3. Communicating through cyberspace; 4. The human dimensions of cyberspace; 5. Strategy and cyberspace; 6. Domestic regulation of cyberspace; 7. Internet governance and international institutions; 8. International law and norms in cyberspace; 9. Artificial intelligence and ethics; 10. Conclusions and future directions of cybersecurity policy; 11. Leading in the cyber age.
About the author
Derek S. Reveron is Chair of the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, Faculty Affiliate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Lecturer in Extension at Harvard University. He specializes in strategy development, non-state security challenges, and U.S. defense policy. He served as a governor-appointed commissioner on the Rhode Island Cybersecurity Commission. His published work examines US foreign policy and defense strategy.John E. Savage is the An Wang Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Brown University. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He served as a Jefferson Science Fellow in the U.S. State Department, a Fellow at the EastWest Institute, and a member of the Rhode Island Cybersecurity Commission. He published over 100 research articles, two books on theoretical computer science, co-authored a book on computer literacy, and co-edited a book on VLSI and parallel systems. He has given more than 185 invited presentations worldwide.
Summary
Cyberspace is the global medium used to socialize, manage businesses, governments, and militaries, and secure personal, corporate, and government secrets. This book provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the policy and technology dimensions of cyberspace for the lay audience as well as computer science and political science students.
