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Under a New Security Landscape: Global Ramifications of Multijurisdictional Conflicts

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The new security landscape requires a deeper level of scrutiny, greater compliance, increased accountability, and more collaboration among our governments and the private sector. Encryption failures, the emergence of sophisticated hackers, and vast data collection by data brokers in our post-Snowden world exposed the complex correlation between security and privacy.

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Sanford, A. (2018). Under a New Security Landscape: Global Ramifications of Multijurisdictional Conflicts. In: Christofferson, D. (eds) Women in Security. Women in Engineering and Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57795-1_2

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