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Title Law, policy, and technology : cyberterrorism, information warfare, and Internet immobilization / Pauline C. Reich and Eduardo Gelbstein, editors
Published Hershey, Pa. : Information Science Reference, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Gale virtual reference library
Contents Section 1: Setting the Scene for Cyberterrorism and Other Cyber Attacks. Chapter 1: The Security Practitioners' Perspective; Chapter 2: Economic, Political and Social Threats in the Information Age; Chapter 3 : Critical Information Infrastructure and Cyber-Terrorism; Chapter 4 : Attackers; Chapter 5: Threats, Vulnerability, Uncertainty and Information Risk; Chapter 6: ICT and Security Governance; Chapter 7: Concerns About What Will Happen Next
Section 2: Law and Policy Perspectives. Chapter 8: To Define or Not to Define; Chapter 9: Anonymity, Actual Incidents, Cyber Attacks and Digital Immobilization; Chapter 10: Culture Clashes; Chapter 11: What is Cyberterrorism and How Real is the Threat?; Chapter 12: Cyber-Search and Cyber-Seizure; Chapter 13: Terrorism and the Internet
Section 3: Case Studies. Chapter 14: Case Study; Chapter 15: China's Cyber Tool; Chapter 16: The United Kingdom's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure
G-8 initiatives -- Recent Developments -- Calls For A United Nations Treaty -- Appendix: Putting Cyberterrorism Into Context
Summary Law, Policy and Technology: Cyberterorrism, Information Warfare and Internet Immobilization provides relevant frameworks and best practices as well as current empirical research findings in the area. It is aimed at professionals who want to improve their understanding of the impact of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructures and other information systems essential to the smooth running of society, how such attacks are carried out, what measures should be taken to mitigate their impact and what lessons can be learned from the attacks and simulations of the last few years
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Title page of print version
Subject Cyberterrorism.
Computer crimes.
Computer security
Cyberspace.
Data protection.
cyberspace.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Terrorism.
Computer crimes
Computer security
Cyberspace
Cyberterrorism
Data protection
Form Electronic book
Author Gelbstein, Eduardo.
Reich, Pauline C.
ISBN 9781780348728
178034872X
9781615208326
1615208321
9781615208319
1615208313