Constructing Cybersecurity : Power, Expertise and the Internet Security Industry / Andrew Whiting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whiting, Andrew, author.

Series:

Manchester University Press Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer industry.

Computer networks--Security measures.

Computer networks.

Computer security--Risk assessment.

Computer security.

Risk management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Constructing cybersecurity adopts a constructivist approach to cybersecurity and problematises the state of contemporary knowledge within this field. Setting out by providing a concise overview of such knowledge this book subsequently adopts Foucauldian positions on power and security to highlight assumptions and limitations found herein. What follows is a detailed analysis of the discourse produced by various internet security companies demonstrating the important role that these security professionals play constituting and entrenching this knowledge by virtue of their specific epistemic authority. As a relatively new source within a broader security dispositif these security professionals have created relationships of mutual recognition and benefit with traditional political and security professionals.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Cybersecurity knowledge

2 Security dispositifs and security professionals

3 Constructing the milieu

4 Constructing cyber-threats

5 Constructing cybersecurity

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Full-text access granted as courtesy of MUP during COVID-19 emergency.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher's information.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526123336

1526123339

OCLC:

1153311984