Securing the Digital Frontier
Cyber Security for Responsible Citizens and Strategic Thinkers
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 May 2025
- ISBN 9780198920137
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 241x165x21 mm
- Weight 582 g
- Language English 658
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Short description:
This book explains why cyber security is in the state it is, with daily incidents hitting the headlines. It doesn't offer easy solutions, or attribute blame, but instead looks at the complex mix of technical and human systems which contribute to the challenge.
MoreLong description:
Cyber space is easily the most complex thing humans have ever created. With billions of people and devices all connected together, vulnerability and compromise are inevitable. The complexity continues to grow, and with it comes the emergent insecurity brought by an ever-developing frontier where digital devices and connected people meet. Security challenges present themselves increasingly often and with ever-greater impacts. This is not going to change anytime soon.
Although the internet has transformed communication, business, and social life for the better, the construct of 'cyber space' is incredibly fragile and presents endless risk. Connecting every corner of our lives to those of billions across the world, the frontier is slender between the good and the bad, benefit and catastrophe, real and fake, security and insecurity. Cyber security advice can be confusing, contradictory, and sometimes utterly detached from reality. Too easily, people feel guilty for not knowing what to do, or failing to live up to expectations. People, particularly business leaders and policy makers, must daily make security-sensitive decisions, sometimes unknowingly, without being security experts.
Securing the Digital Frontier doesn't offer easy answers, but instead explains sixteen dimensions of this dynamic problem and its current partial solutions. The strong technology of encryption has become commonplace, and is a huge benefit if deployed well: but how can you tell? Programming errors give rise to security problems, but why can we not eliminate them? Privacy is tied up with security, but can the two work against each other? Cyber space is international: how can domestic laws protect us? And what happens when those laws come into conflict with technologies like encryption? Why do you need a punctuation symbol and a capital letter in your password, anyway? Through a grasp of the big picture, through technical and human perspectives, we can begin to explore ways to unwind some of the complexity and find ways to contain the risk.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
0. Mind Your Cybers: Introduction
Interlude I. DigiNotar: A Cautionary Tale
1. Was It Encrypted?: Applied Cryptography
2. We're Only Human: Human Factors
INTERLUDE II. Guessing Passwords
3. In the Round: Secure Systems
4. Know Your Enemy: Adversarial Behaviours
5. Choose Your Priorities: Risk Management
INTERLUDE III. Identity
6. Permission Denied: Authentication, Authorization,and Accountability
7. Who's Watching You?: Privacy and Online Rights
Interlude IV. Phil Zimmermann and Pretty Good Privacy
8. Shall I love Big Brother?: Law and Regulation
9. Getting Ahead of the Bear: Security Operations and Incident Management
10. It's All in Code: 'Software Security'
Interlude V. Device and Service Identity
11. Connections are Crucial: Network Security
12. No More White Coats: Operating Systems Security
13. Software with Malice: Malware and Attack Technologies
Interlude VI. Stuxnet: Cyber Weapons Come of Age
14. No One is in Charge of the Chains?: Distributed Systems and Distributed Ledgers
15. I Don't Want a Turing Machine: Hardware Security
Interlude VII. Turing Machine: A Conceptual Computer
16. The Internet of Everything: Cyber-Physical Systems
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Books for Further Reading
Papers and Reports
Resources
Index
