Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know

Published in 2014 by P.W. Singer and Allan Friedman

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

A generation ago, cyberspace was a term from science fiction, used to describe the nascent network of computers linking a few university labs. Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally depends on the Internet.  Cybersecurity and Cyberwar is structured around the key question areas of cyberspace and its security: how it all works, why it all matters, and what can we do?  Along the way, the authors take readers on a tour of the important issues and characters of cybersecurity, from hackers and the Stuxnet computer virus to the new cyber units of the Chinese and U.S. militaries.

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This is the second year in a row I've featured a book on cyberspace…but the Airmen who nominated Cybersecurity and Cyberwar were right when they noted that this is a domain that won’t wait for us to “learn at our leisure.”  Cyberspace represents an important new frontier in the profession of arms…and as such, we all have a responsibility to educate ourselves.

Caroll V. Glines

About The Author

Peter Warren Singer is a strategist and Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, as well as a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy. He received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard and a BA from the Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton.

Caroll V. Glines

About The Author

Allan Friedman is a Visiting Scholar at the Cyber Security Policy Research Institute at George Washington University, where he works on cybersecurity policy; he has spent time at the Brookings Institution, the Center for Technology Innovation, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard. He has a degree in Computer Science from Swarthmore College, and a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University.

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