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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

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition (January 3, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780199918119
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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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    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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Customers find the book very informative, with an excellent overview of cybersecurity, cyber threats, and current trends. They also describe the writing quality as good and a good read for basic level cyber security material. Readers appreciate that the book is written in the most simplistic terms possible for such a subject.

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Customers find the book very informative, with excellent examples. They also appreciate the useful overview of cybersecurity, laying out many ideas on individual responsibilities. Readers describe the work as high-level intelligence, enlivened by anecdotes and stories. They mention that the book is not technical or computer focused.

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Customers find the writing quality of the book good, brilliant, and fair. They also say it's well worth the time and money.

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Customers find the book written in the most simplistic terms possible, clear, concise, and enjoyable. They also say it provides some of the best and most comprehensive descriptions of cybersecurity concepts and cyber.

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5.0 out of 5 stars 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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Chris Ziesler
4.0 out of 5 stars Walking Into Our Cyberfuture With Eyes Wide Open
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2014
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There were two types of book I was trying to avoid when looking for a book on cybersecurity: an overly technical IT-based approach that would lose me after the introduction and so leave me lost and bewildered; or, equally unhelpfully, a book so worthy but dull that it taught me nothing of value and left me none the wiser about the significance and importance of the subject.

What Singer and Friedmann have managed to do with great style is to write a book that steers a middle way between these two possible pitfalls.

The book rips along at a good pace, enlivened by many anecdotes and stories and interesting asides without ever straying too far from their main theme. For example, I had no idea that the days of the dominance of the Internet by cute cat videos may be nearing its end as, "Google researchers have noticed an explosion of cute goat and cute Panda bear videos that have risen in parallel with the greater number of users coming online in sub-Saharan Africa and China."

On the face of it this is merely a whimsical aside but the authors have a serious point to make that up until now the Internet has been dominated by Western, principally US-based, users. This dominance is changing quickly, and the demographic of Internet users will change everything about the way cyberspace works, and particularly it will have huge implications for cybersecurity.

Singer and Friedmann are very patient and thorough at explaining terms and concepts as they introduce them, so I never felt condescended to, or left behind in a welter of jargon. Given the amount of specialist vocabulary this was a notable achievement.

I did find Part III: What Can We Do? to be hard going. The approaches and discussions are very relevant and entirely to the point, but that doesn't make the material easy to assimilate.

The authors managed to make a potentially dull subject accessible and interesting. They also managed to provide a calm and lucid commentary on a subject that is all too often filled with hyperbole and a deliberate over-inflation of fears and threats. I felt at the end of the book that I was much better informed and, I hope, a little wiser about cybersecurity than I was at the start.
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5.0 out of 5 stars High Level Policy Issues in Cyberspace
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2014
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Anyone interested in seriously large-scale cyber security and cyber war issues should find this book an informative read. Through a series of provocative questions and answers, the authors cover a wide range of topics from defining cyberspace, cyber security, how terrorists use the web, cyber counter terrorism, to the final discussions of where cyber security is headed next. Throughout the book, the authors craft their responses in an enjoyable and easy to understand writing style. They say the book is not just written for experts, but of course as you would expect from the title, there are tons of highly specialized technical terms used throughout the book. So in my opinion, the "non-expert" reader should at least possess some level of expertise beyond that of an armchair novice. That is, if you expect to fully understand the material. Both authors have a high level of professional involvement and sophisticated understanding of national and international cyber security and cyber war. After all, one is the Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institute and the other is Research Director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institute. I have no problem with giving this book a five star rating.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Buen producto, en tiempo récord.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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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Amadori E.
5.0 out of 5 stars libro per lavoro
Reviewed in Italy on June 6, 2017
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Utilissimo per il mio lavoro,scritto in un inglese di facile comprensione.Non eccessivamente tecnico e molto scorrevole.
Lo consiglio a chi studia o lavora e vuole saperne di piu' sull'argomento
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4.0 out of 5 stars 大学生の息子に頼まれて
Reviewed in Japan on December 11, 2016
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息子がいろいろな本やを探し回る手間を考えたら、アマゾンならプライム会員でもなくても、２、３日で届く。有難い。
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