The secure information society
Subtitle: ethical, legal and political challenges
By: Jörg Krüger, Bertram Nickolay, Sandro Gaycken, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781447147626
Subjects: Computer security; Computer networks; Security measures; Law and legislation; Government policy
Description: In our modern information societies, we not only use and welcome computers; we are highly dependent upon them. There is a downside of this kind of progress, however. Computers are not 100% reliable. They are insecure. They are vulnerable to attackers. They can either be attacked directly, to disrupt their services, or they can be abused in clever ways to do the bidding of an attacker as a dysfunctional user.Decision-makers and experts alike always struggle with the amount of interdisciplinary knowledge needed to understand the nuts and bolts of modern information societies and their relation to security, the implications of technological or political progress or the lack thereof. This holds in particular for new challenges to come. These are harder to understand and to categorize; their development is difficult to predict. To mitigate this problem and to enable more foresight, The Secure Information Society provides an interdisciplinary spotlight onto some new and unfolding aspects of the uneasy relationship between information technology and information society, to aid the dialogue not only in its current and ongoing struggle, but to anticipate the future in time and prepare perspectives for the challenges ahead.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Between war & peace : considering the statecraft of cyberspace / Chris Bronk; title: Laying an intellectual foundation for cyberdeterrence : some inital steps / Herbert Lin; title: Duties of care on the internet / Nico van Eijk; title: The governance of network and information security in the European Union : the European Public-Private Partnership for Resilience (EP3R) / Kristina Irion; title: Data insecurity : scams, blags & scalawags / Sylvia Kierkegaard; title: Content analysis in the digital age : tools, functions, and implications for security / Johan Eriksson and Giampiero Giacomello; title: Secure products using inherent features / M. Blankenburg, C. Horn, and J. Krüger; title: Assistant-based reconstruction of believed destroyed shredded documents / D. Pöhler, J. Schneider, and B. Nickolay; title: In-memory technology enables history-based access control for RFID-aided supply chains / Matthieu-P. Schapranow and Hasso Plattner.