Cyber-security and threat politics
Subtitle: US efforts to secure the information age
By: Myriam Dunn Cavelty.
Series: CSS studies in security and international relations
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415429818
Subjects: Computer security -- United States; Computer security -- Government policy -- United States; Threats -- Government policy -- United States; Computer networks -- Security measures -- United States; National security -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The information age and cyber-threats : shifting meanings and interpretations; title: Politics and threat construction : theoretical underpinnings; title: The hostile intelligence threat, data security, and encryption set the stage; title: Asymmetric vulnerabilities and the double-edged sword of information warfare : developments in the military domain; title: Critical infrastructures and homeland security; title: Securing the information age : failed securitisation or a new logic of security?; title: Cyber-threats and security in the information age : issues and implications.