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Age of deception : cybersecurity as secret statecraft / Jon R. Lindsay.

By: Series: Cornell studies in security affairsPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2025Description: 309 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781501783210
  • 9781501783470
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Age of deceptionLOC classification:
  • JZ1254 .L56 2025
Contents:
Introduction : Intelligence Now -- Defining Secret Statecraft -- A Theory of Intelligence Performance -- Security in Cyberspace -- Espionage : Bletchley Park and the Mechanization of Intelligence -- Sabotage : Stuxnet Reinterpreted as Secret Diplomacy -- Subversion : The 2016 U.S. Election and the Demand for Disinformation -- Cyber Power : China and the Contradictions of Cybersecurity -- Conclusion : Good News and Bad News about Cyber Warfare.
Summary: "Cybersecurity is less like warfare and more like intelligence. Intelligence is a form of conflict that exploits cooperation, and cyber conflict is a form of intelligence that exploits large-scale cooperation in cyberspace. This book thus develops a general theory of secret statecraft and intelligence performance to explain modern cyber campaigns"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Intelligence Now -- Defining Secret Statecraft -- A Theory of Intelligence Performance -- Security in Cyberspace -- Espionage : Bletchley Park and the Mechanization of Intelligence -- Sabotage : Stuxnet Reinterpreted as Secret Diplomacy -- Subversion : The 2016 U.S. Election and the Demand for Disinformation -- Cyber Power : China and the Contradictions of Cybersecurity -- Conclusion : Good News and Bad News about Cyber Warfare.

"Cybersecurity is less like warfare and more like intelligence. Intelligence is a form of conflict that exploits cooperation, and cyber conflict is a form of intelligence that exploits large-scale cooperation in cyberspace. This book thus develops a general theory of secret statecraft and intelligence performance to explain modern cyber campaigns"-- Provided by publisher.

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