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Creeping Failure How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It

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ISBN-10: 0771041489

ISBN-13: 9780771041488

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jeffrey Hunker

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The Internet is often called a superhighway, but it may be more analogous to a city: an immense tangle of streets, highways, and interchanges, lined with homes and businesses, playgrounds and theatres. We may not physically live in this city, but most of us spend a lot of time there, and even pay rents and fees to hold property in it. But the Internet is not a city of the 21st century. Jeffrey Hunker, an internationally known expert in cyber-security and counter-terrorism policy, argues that the Internet of today is, in many ways, equivalent to the burgeoning cities of the early Industrial Revolution: teeming with energy but also with new and previously unimagined dangers, and lacking the…    
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Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Publication date: 8/24/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.29" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

JEFFREY HUNKER holds a PhD from the Harvard Business School. He has worked in both the public and private sectors, developing and implementing strategic policy in information security, national security, global trade, and environmental technoliges. At the US National Security Council, he led the implementation of the first national strategy for cyber security under the Clinton adminsitration. He was recently Distinguished Service Professor of Technology and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and is now principal of Jeffrey Hunker Associates in Pittsburgh. From the Hardcover edition.

Introduction: Your City, My City, No Man's Land
Washington, We Have a Problem
Into the Underworld
Modes of Attack
The Costs and Impacts of Cyber Crime
Cyber War and Cyber Terrorism
It's Policy Failure, Folks
Better Software and Better Users
New Frameworks
The Ultimate Promise: A New Internet
Creeping Failure is not Inevitable
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index