Hacked
Subtitle: the inside story of America's struggle to secure cyberspace
By: Charlie Mitchell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781442255210
Subjects: Cyber intelligence (Computer security); Government policy; Computer security; Internet
Description: Examines the ongoing cybersecurity attacks on government and business sites in the United States and describes the internal power struggles within the Obama administration, Congress, and the business community to contain and prevent them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Carry out our demand if you want to escape us"; title: The first cyber president; title: Sirens on Capitol Hill; title: To build a framework; title: The department of insecurity; title: The telecom challenge; title: The FTC, "protecting America's consumers"; title: Fear and failure, again, on Capitol Hill; title: The information-sharing matrix; title: A new congress brings a new energy to cyber debate; title: The promise and peril of "strong encryption"; title: Cyber tensions define the U.S.-China relationship; title: Help wanted, desperately, for cybersecurity; title: Senate debate takes shape, then "surprise!" stalls; title: At long last, the political system arrives at an answer; title: The unfinished journey.