Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know® Illustrated Edition

by P.W. Singer (Author), Allan Friedman (Author)

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A generation ago, "cyberspace" was just 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. And the cybersecurity
issues that result challenge literally everyone: politicians wrestling with everything from cybercrime to online freedom; generals protecting the nation from new forms of attack, while planning new cyberwars; business executives defending firms from once unimaginable threats, and looking to make
money off of them; lawyers and ethicists building new frameworks for right and wrong. Most of all, cybersecurity issues affect us as individuals. We face new questions in everything from our rights and responsibilities as citizens of both the online and real world to simply how to protect ourselves
and our families from a new type of danger. And yet, there is perhaps no issue that has grown so important, so quickly, and that touches so many, that remains so poorly understood.

In Cybersecurity and CyberWar: What Everyone Needs to Know®, New York Times best-selling author P. W. Singer and noted cyber expert Allan Friedman team up to provide the kind of easy-to-read, yet deeply informative resource book that has been missing on this crucial issue of 21st century life.
Written in a lively, accessible style, filled with engaging stories and illustrative anecdotes, the book 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, they take readers on a tour of the important
(and entertaining) issues and characters of cybersecurity, from the "Anonymous" hacker group and the Stuxnet computer virus to the new cyber units of the Chinese and U.S. militaries. Cybersecurity and CyberWar: What Everyone Needs to Know® is the definitive account on the subject for us all, which
comes not a moment too soon.

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"...an impressive tour de force, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar gives us actual case studies, insider interviews, bizarre trivia, and a lot of dramatic statistics to help demystify the danger, and there is real danger. The timely book brings thoughtful, witty, and balanced analysis to this very
important emerging discussion...it's a book I wish I had written." --Patrick Lin, The Atlantic

"If you're completely ignorant about malware and cyberattacks, this is the book for you. And if you think you know a lot about these topics, this is still the book for you. It's thorough, exhaustive, and easy to read...extremely approachable." --Mashable

"In confronting the cybersecurity problem, it's important for all of us to become knowledgeable and involved. This book makes that possible -- and also fascinating. It's everything you need to know about cybersecurity, wonderfully presented in a clear and smart way."--Walter Isaacson, author of
Steve Jobs

"If you read only one book about 'all this cyberstuff,' make it this one. Singer and Friedman know how to make even the most complicated material accessible and even entertaining, while at the same time making a powerful case for why all of us need to know more and think harder about the
(cyber)world we know live in."--Anne-Marie Slaughter, President, the New America Foundation

"Singer and Friedman blend a wonderfully easy to follow FAQ format with engaging prose, weaving explanations of the elements of cybersecurity with revealing anecdotes. From the fundamentals of Internet architecture to the topical intrigue of recent security leaks, this book provides an accessible
and enjoyable analysis of the current cybersecurity landscape and what it could look like in the future."--Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law and Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, and author of The Future of the Internet-And How to Stop It

"Singer and Friedman do a highly credible job of documenting the present and likely future risky state of cyber-affairs. This is a clarion call."--Vint Cerf, "Father of the Internet," Presidential Medal of Freedom winner

"I loved this book. Wow. Until I read this astonishing and important book, I didn't know how much I didn't know about the hidden world of cybersecurity and cyberwar. Singer and Friedman make comprehensible an impossibly complex subject, and expose the frightening truth of just how vulnerable we
are. Understanding these often-invisible threats to our personal and national security is a necessary first step toward defending ourselves against them. This is an essential read."--Howard Gordon, Executive Producer of 24 and co-creator of Homeland

"In our digital age, the issues of cybersecurity are no longer just for the technology crowd; they matter to us all. Whether you work in business or politics, the military or the media-or are simply an ordinary citizen-this is an essential read."--Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google

"This is the most approachable and readable book ever written on the cyber world. The authors have distilled the key facts and policy, provided sensible recommendations, and opened the debate generally to any informed citizen: a singular achievement. A must read for practitioners and scholars
alike."--Admiral James Stavridis, U.S. Navy (Ret), former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO

"This book may interest and be appreciated by anyone seeking a better understanding of cyber threats" -CHOICE

About the Author

P.W. Singer is Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution.

Allan Friedman is a Visiting Scholar at the Cyber Security Policy Research Institute, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at George Washington University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition (January 3, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199918090
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199918096
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.9 x 5.6 x 8.4 inches

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P.W. Singer
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Hi! My formal biography and links to all my books and articles are at www.pwsinger.com but the short version is that I am someone who loves to read, and hopes to write books that people love to read too.
You can also follow me on twitter @peterwsinger
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Allan Friedman
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Allan Friedman is a Visiting Scholar at the the Cyber Security Policy Research Institute in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at George Washington University, where he works on cybersecurity policy.
Wearing the hats of both a technologist and a policy scholar, his work spans computer science, public policy and the social sciences, and has addressed issues ranging from electronic medical records to telecommunications policy. His recent work has focused on the economic aspects of information security.
Throughout his career, he has focused on explaining complex technical problems to policy audiences, and identifying empirically-grounded technical and policy solutions. Friedman has shared his expertise on cyber security and information technology policy with a range of print, radio, web, and TV outlets. He has contributed as a technology and policy expert for a range of organizations, including the Department of Homeland Security, the World Economic Forum, and the OECD. On the research side, he has served on academic program committees and editorial committees of multiple computer science and technology policy journals and research conferences. In 2013, he chaired the Workshop on Economics of Information Security.
Prior to joining CSPRI, Friedman was a Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and the research director for the Center for Technology Innovation. Before moving to Washington, he was Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University Computer Science department, where he worked on cyber security policy, privacy-enhancing technologies and the economics of information security. Friedman was also a Fellow at the Kenndy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where he worked on the Minerva Project for Cyber International Relations. He has also received fellowships from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and the Harvard Program on Networked Governance. He has a degree in Computer Science from Swarthmore College, and a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University.
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Mario Covarrubias Jr.

Very Easy Read

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2017

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In my opinion, this book was primarily written for the C level decision maker who does not fully understand or appreciate the importance of Information Security. That having been said, I have been an Information Security professional for 17 years and I still managed to learn a lot from the book. The book begins with a brief explanation about the history of the internet which I really enjoyed. The authors highlights that the most difficult aspect of forensic analysis is attribution. Trying to determine who is responsible for the attack is difficult and sometimes impossible to ascertain. The author of the Conficker worm, for example, which created the largest bot net to this day, is still unknown. The most fascinating part of the book covered Stuxnet. The authors go into wonderful detail explaining how and why the Stuxnet virus was a masterful cyberweapon. I especially like the authors’ position that the government needs to establish a “Cyber CDC”. “Take everything that the CDC does and slap Cyber in front of it”. The authors stress the importance of conducting practice cyber attacks led by a red team; this is a message for senior management.

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Mike Moody

Good Overview of Cybersecurity

Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2015

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This book is a good high level overview of cybersecurity issues. The book is divided into three main sections: an overview of the internet, its history, and how it works, an examination of the various threats (from criminals to states to patriotic hackers) and both how and why attacks are performed, and then finally a section on what can be done from both a personal and policy level. All the information in the book is from a high level with only a basic amount of technical information. There are several sections that give some detail on particular incidents of hacking (such as stuxnet), but these too only give enough technical detail to help the reader understand what happened.

I found the most interesting aspect of the book to be the policy-level discussions of hacking. If a state hacks another state and shuts down a power plant, what constitutes an appropriate response? Does it make sense for the victim state to move the conflict to the “real” world and bomb an attacker’s power plant in retaliation? Also, the difficulties of determining just who initiated an attack are explored. All in all, I recommend this book for the reader who want a good overview of an issue that will likely dominate geopolitics in the coming decades.

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Fussy_Consumer

Another great book from Peter Singer

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2014

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Dr. Singer's books are always engaging, and this book, co-authored Allan Friedman, continues that tradition.

This book is written to be consumed by any thoughtful reader -- it is not a deep dive in UNIX system administration challenges, it not full of computer acronyms, it does not require an advanced degree in computer science.

This book clearly educates the reader about cybersecurity issues, and then expands upon this discussion to enable the reader to conceptualize the challenges of the subject. A good example of this is their Short History of the Internet, which is a clear and concise and enjoyable read by itself. This history includes, in layman's terms, evolution, funding agencies, control entities, architecture, Al Gore, governance, cryptographic keys, and more. With this foundation the authors then expand into many cybersecurity challenges, like WikiLeaks and a variety of security threats.

I particularly liked the discussions on attribution, cybercrimes, and cyber terrorism -- these are not simple issues, and the authors articulate some of the complexities of attribution that make cybersecurity so difficult.

The authors wrap up the book by defining the Five Key Trends that Affect the Future of Cybersecurity – Cloud Computing, Big Data, Mobile, Cyberspace Demographics, and Internet-of-Things (IoT). These trends all increase the problem space of cybersecurity, and the authors define how these trends will drive an even higher demand for security in our future systems.

With this history, description of threats, frameworks, and trends, the authors truly accomplish their goal of delivering a primer of what one needs to know about cybersecurity and cyberwar.

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21st centuryman

it a worthhile starting point, but not an ending point

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2018

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Its ok,the author makes a number of presumptions and stereotypes, which gets old after a while. The book spends a fair amount of time on policy, which, to me, is basically not much more than advocating for a cyber version of the endicot fort doctrine that lasted for 100 some years as national defense policy. To be fair, they do explain why they spend a bunch of time on this, and while its not totally convincing, its a fair point to make. The part that I liked best was they differentiate between state actors, different levels of criminal organizations, patriotic hackers and what not and place those treats in some perspective.

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Raises some unteresting points

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2017

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It's not the most exciting topic but I think Peter did a nice job of shedding light into dark corners to help raise awareness of our collective government lack in understanding, or more specifically, misunderstanding.

I think his frame of mind for how we should approach cyber is of value, and certaintly better than how we were going about cyber at the time of this publication (although the same mindsets seem to still exist today).

A good bus or train read for anyone interested in cyber policy.

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Steeve139

Read this - and then protect yourself

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2016

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Great book, interesting read. Turned out to be more expensive than I bargained for. As soon as I finished reading it, I felt the need to buy Norton Anti-Virus and install it on my laptop and smartphone.

With the Internet-of-Things (IoT) coming, everything will be connected to the net, and it will all be at risk of remote control unless the security is handled properly. This is going to be a growth area.

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Andrew and his Cats

Fantastic Insight - a real gem of a book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2017

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Fantastic insight into the Cybersecurity and Cyberwar. I think the authors whilst highly respected have clearly edged back a bit after the Part I or one third of the book. As a subject matter expert i would struggle on the second and third parts - as its a trickly topic [educating the mitigations and techniques to nail those doing this is not a bright idea]. If you are a in business, concerned or a guru that aspires to become an ethical hacker this is a real gem of a book.

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ddan

For the lay person not the professional

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2018

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Reasonably well written but much more suitable for the lay person, if you work in IT and have a basic understanding of security there is nothing new here.

Amazon Customer

Excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2018

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Amazon Customer

Clear and concise

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 13, 2020

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Very readable and broken into topics. A great beginner guide to further direct more study.

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