Law, Policy, and Technology: Cyberterrorism, Information Warfare, and Internet Immobilization: Cyberterrorism, Information Warfare, and Internet Immobilization

Reich, Pauline C.

Jun 2012 · IGI Global

About this ebook

In the information society, technology has become ubiquitous, but its intrinsic vulnerabilities and the complexity of managing mission-critical systems create an attractive target for potential attackers.

Law, Policy, and Technology: Cyberterorrism, Information Warfare, and Internet Immobilization provides relevant frameworks and best practices as well as current empirical research findings in the area. It is aimed at professionals who want to improve their understanding of the impact of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructures and other information systems essential to the smooth running of society, how such attacks are carried out, what measures should be taken to mitigate their impact and what lessons can be learned from the attacks and simulations of the last few years.

About the author

Professor Pauline Reich, American lawyer and professor, writer, arbitrator/mediator, consultant. Director, Asia-Pacific Cyberlaw, Cybercrime and Internet Security Institute, Tokyo, Japan, conducting research, producing publications, providing technical assistance and training for lawyers, judges, prosecutors, police, legislators, businesses, governments in the Asia-Pacific region and worldwide. Speaker at conferences in the United States, Europe and Asia, e.g. APEC Symposium on Information Privacy in E-Government and E-commerce, CSI 2008, RAISE (Regional Asia Information Security Exchange), Business Software Alliance, Cybersecurity Malaysia, Asian Institute of Technology, ITU regional Asia workshop on framework for Cybersecurity and CIIP, BILETA 2010.

Dr. Eduardo Gelbstein, Adjunct Professor, Webster University Geneva, former advisor to the United Nations Board of (external) Auditors, former Director, United Nations International Computing Centre and I.T. Strategy Manager, British Railways Network South East. Author of numerous articles and publications on Information Security and auditing and frequent speaker at international conferences on security and governance in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. [Editor]