Overview
- Provides a broad survey of the United States counterterrorism and cyber security history, strategies and technologies
- Demystifies Total Information Awareness and Edward Snowden's NSA leaks
- Examines U.S. intelligence community, causes and cures for terrorism, war and peace, cyber warfare and cyber security in healthcare and everyday life
- Discusses artificial intelligence in data mining, penetration testing, USB write-blocking and forensics, and DARPA's $2 million Cyber Grand Challenge
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Cybersecurity: Applications and Challenges
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Back Matter
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About this book
From 9/11 to Charlie Hebdo along with Sony-pocalypse and DARPA's $2 million Cyber Grand Challenge, this book examines counterterrorism and cyber security history, strategies and technologies from a thought-provoking approach that encompasses personal experiences, investigative journalism, historical and current events, ideas from thought leaders and the make-believe of Hollywood such as 24, Homeland and The Americans. President Barack Obama also said in his 2015 State of the Union address, "We are making sure our government integrates intelligence to combat cyber threats, just as we have done to combat terrorism.
In this new edition, there are seven completely new chapters, including three new contributed chapters by healthcare chief information security officer Ray Balut and Jean C. Stanford, DEF CON speaker Philip Polstra and security engineer and Black Hat speaker Darren Manners, as well as new commentaries by communications expert Andy Marken and DEF CON speaker Emily Peed.
The book offers practical advice for businesses, governments and individuals to better secure the world and protect cyberspace.
Reviews
“The second edition of this book … presents a comprehensive account of past and current initiatives in the field of total information awareness, examining history, strategies, and technologies with a thought-provoking approach that will appeal to both technical and nontechnical readers. … This is a very rich, accurate, and well-documented book, full of references to press sources, which can help in getting a sense of how many initiatives, concerns, and approaches exist in the field of counterterrorism and cybersecurity.” (Alessandro Berni, Computing Reviews, October, 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Newton Lee is CEO of Newton Lee Laboratories LLC, president of the Institute for Education, Research and Scholarships, adjunct professor at Woodbury University's School of Media, Culture & Design and editor-in-chief of ACM Computers in Entertainment. Previously, he was a computer scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, senior producer and engineer at The Walt Disney Company, and research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses. Lee graduated Summa Cum Laude from Virginia Tech with a B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science, and he earned a perfect GPA from Vincennes University with an A.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and an honorary doctorate in Computer Science. He is the co-author of Disney Stories: Getting to Digital; author of the Total Information Awareness book series including Facebook Nation and Counterterrorism and Cyber security; coauthor/editor of the Digital Da Vinci book series including Computers in Music and Computers in the Arts and Sciences and editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity
Book Subtitle: Total Information Awareness
Authors: Newton Lee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17244-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-17243-9Published: 20 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37460-4Published: 06 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-17244-6Published: 07 April 2015
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 489
Number of Illustrations: 120 b/w illustrations
Topics: Systems and Data Security, Political Science, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Multimedia Information Systems
Industry Sectors: Aerospace, Automotive, Biotechnology, Electronics, Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking, IT & Software, Law, Pharma, Telecommunications