Overview
- Explores the history and dangerous future of unchecked information warfare
- Describes efforts to promote cyber arms control by building trust and transparency
- Establishes a new research direction: information technology for peace and security
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Fundamentals
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Cyber Conflicts and War
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Cyber Attribution and Infrastructures
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About this book
This book offers an introduction to Information Technology with regard to peace, conflict, and security research, a topic that it approaches from natural science, technical and computer science perspectives. Following an initial review of the fundamental roles of IT in connection with peace, conflict and security, the contributing authors address the rise of cyber conflicts via information warfare, cyber espionage, cyber defence and Darknets. The book subsequently explores recent examples of cyber warfare, including:
• The Stuxnet attack on Iran’s uranium refining capability
• The hacking of the German Federal Parliament’s internal communication system
• The Wannacry malware campaign, which used software stolen from a US security agency to launch ransomware attacks worldwide
Information Technology for Peace and Security breaks new ground in a largely unexplored field of study, and offers a valuable asset for a broad readership including students, educators and working professionals in computer science, IT security, peace and conflict studies, and political science.
Reviews
“Should you buy this book as a textbook – definitely. Should you buy it to read through or dip into if you are not learning about IT – definitely. This is a fast-developing area of knowledge with significant implications for peace and armed conflict – we can’t all be experts, but we all need to understand as far as possible what needs to be done.” (Marion Birch, Medicine, Conflict and Survival, March 24, 2020)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Information Technology for Peace and Security
Book Subtitle: IT Applications and Infrastructures in Conflicts, Crises, War, and Peace
Editors: Christian Reuter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25652-4
Publisher: Springer Vieweg Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Computer Science and Engineering (German Language)
Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-25651-7Published: 25 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-25652-4Published: 12 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 424
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Security, Computers and Society, Conflict Studies, Peace Studies