Constructing cybersecurity: Power, expertise and the internet security industry (Manchester University Press) - Hardcover

Whiting, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1526123320 ISBN 13: 9781526123329

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Andrew Whiting is a Senior Lecturer in Security Studies at Birmingham City University

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The securitisation of ‘cyberspace’ has seen a raft of new security risks emerge, with governments expanding their national security agenda to counter these cyber-threats against ‘the digital homeland’. Despite the benefits of global connectivity, issues of (in)security – from big data collection, to mass-surveillance, to the spread of misinformation – are not far detached from questions around the societal value of computers and computer networks. How we conceptualise security relies on assumptions about security, including deciding whom or what requires securing.

Constructing cybersecurity explores the role and impact of expertise within the internet security industry in constructing a dominant cybersecurity knowledge that conflates cybersecurity with national security. Highlighting the assumptions and limitations of contemporary knowledge within the field of cybersecurity, Andrew Whiting argues that these security professionals have formed communities of mutual recognition with the state that serve to entrench the centrality of the latter while strengthening their own position within an extended strategy of neoliberal governance.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1526123320
• ISBN 13: 9781526123329
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 214
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland