Cyberterrorism: Understanding, Assessment, and Response
Language: English
Pages: 231
ISBN: 1493944835
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This is the first book to present a multidisciplinary approach to cyberterrorism. It traces the threat posed by cyberterrorism today, with chapters discussing possible technological vulnerabilities, potential motivations to engage in cyberterrorism, and the challenges of distinguishing this from other cyber threats. The book also addresses the range of potential responses to this threat by exploring policy and legislative frameworks as well as a diversity of techniques for deterring or countering terrorism in cyber environments. The case studies throughout the book are global in scope and include the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
With contributions from distinguished experts with backgrounds including international relations, law, engineering, computer science, public policy and politics, Cyberterrorism: Understanding, Assessment and Response offers a cutting edge analysis of contemporary debate on, and issues surrounding, cyberterrorism. This global scope and diversity of perspectives ensure it is of great interest to academics, students, practitioners, policymakers and other stakeholders with an interest in cyber security.
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to counter cyber terrorism with other national security policy, then connecting the national to organizational and individual levels. This chapter builds on earlier discussions of definitions (Jarvis et al. 2014) and taxonomies of threats to elaborate the need for high-level conceptual discussions of responses. We build upon the argument made by Jarvis, Nouri and Whiting to approach cyberterrorism as a social construction and highlight the usefulness of such efforts for responses. From a
‘reasonable cause to suspect’ that B will use those funds to launch a cyber-attack against an electronic system. The TA2000 also includes an offence of collecting information that is ‘likely to be useful’ to a person preparing an act of terrorism (section 58). The offence carries a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment. This means that an individual could, for example, be prosecuted for using the Internet to research how to seriously interfere with an electronic system. The TA2000 definition
Surrogate terrorism in which there was direct support by the state, and clandestine terrorism in which the state directly participated. What both the Healey and Stohl spectrums of responsibility have in common is that they illustrate how behaviors that states, in general, condemn when done by their opposition and by non-state actors are “legitimated” by labeling. The unintended consequence is that these behaviours, regardless of how they are labeled, serve to undermine the norms necessary for
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realm have such a fleeting half-life that the adoption of a ‘fixed’ taxonomy of cyber threats within policy is almost a futile task. Many will have been extinguished or become extinct by the time policy takes hold, with other, undoubtedly more sophisticated, threats taking their place. Such is the rapidity of evolution in the ruthless ecology of cyberspace. Nevertheless, there is little doubt that the internetbased economy is growing in value and that this is growth is matched by a surge in a
