Cyber War: the Next Threat to National Security and What to Do about It

By: Sarin Ranjan

Cyberterrorism involves a premeditated act; its goal is to intentionally take actions - or threaten to use actions - against computers, networks, and other critical infrastructures to inflict damage in order to further ideological, political, or other types of objectives, or to intimidate any person in furtherance of such objectives. Technological developments have seen the virtual domain evolve dramatically, and the 21st century marked acceleration in both- the online world and the threats that arise from it. The recent years have experiences not only an enhanced access to the internet worldwide, greater capabilities of programs and a wider range of services. Computers have also brought technical, political, social and economic problems, with malware being born at a higher frequency than the cures for it. Controls over targets and over attackers have become exceedingly difficult to achieve; and in the latter- practically impossible. This book is analyzes cyberterrorism from various perspectives. By and large, cyberterrorism refers to the use of the Internet or information technologies (i.e., computers), from both internal and external networks, to launch electronic attacks.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1532931999
• ISBN13: 9781532931994
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"