This book examines the policy, legal, and technical challenges of cybersecurity. In examining six distinct and previously little-discussed case studies, the book presents an overview of emerging threats and the ways in which government officials and corporate leaders are responding to the novel challenges of cybersecurity. In weaving together these disparate cases, the book provides a detailed map of the emerging cybersecurity ecosystem. It charts the role that corporations, policymakers, and technologists are playing in defining the contours of our digital world. The changes introduced in the name of cybersecurity are important: they are remaking and reshaping our expectations of privacy, the foundations on which businesses operate, and the technical character of the networks on which we rely. The book offers readers an opportunity to understand these changes.
The book emphasizes the interconnection of law, policy, and technology in cyberspace. Rather than seeing cybersecurity as exclusively an issue of bits and bytes, the selected case studies underscore the institutional and organizational dimensions of the domain. The book ultimately reveals some surprising success stories: It sheds light on instances where corporate leaders and government officials have--at times ingeniously--reinterpreted existing laws, crated new policies, and deployed novel technologies to enhance cybersecurity while protecting privacy, freedom of expression, and competiveness.
