Brenner - Glass houses: privacy, secrecy, and cyber insecurity in a transparent world

Praise for Glass Houses

A public service announcement of the most urgent sort, this engrossing book reveals how our lack of cyber savvy, both as individuals and as a nation, is exposing us to extraordinary risks.... Thought-provoking reading from an expert witness.

Discover

The authors background as a former anti-trust prosecutor is on impressive display as he mounts his case with meticulous attention to detail.

Kirkus Reviews

Brenner offers a comprehensive recipe for shoring up network security in both government and private sectors.

Booklist

This alarming account by an expert is worthy of serious attention from policy makers and average readers alike.

Publishers Weekly

[Glass Houses] offers an experts keen insight into the netherworld of cyberrisk. Rich in facts, stories, and analysis, the book is a clarion call for more effective cyberpolicies and practices in both the government and private sector. America should take heed.

Ambassador Henry A. Crumpton, author of The Art of Intelligence

If you have a responsibility for protecting intellectual property, trade secrets, and other instruments of successful business; if you are responsible for protecting national information and technology interests then you have a responsibility to read this book. Bring a change of underwear.

Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google

Cybercrime, espionage, and warfare are among the great challenges of this century, but as Joel Brenner argues, we are woefully ill-prepared to meet them. Drawing on history, law, economics, common sense, and his rare experience in counterintelligence, Brenner deftly describes the problems and offers a series of very practical solutions. This book is both well written and convincing.

Joseph Nye, author of Soft Power and The Future of Power and University Distinguished Service Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Brenner takes us inside the daily battle in the world of cyberespionage, where China and others are stealing American corporations secret sauce. He shows us the ongoing cyberwar that the U.S. is losing.

Richard Clarke, author of Cyber War and Against All Enemies, former White House National Coordinator for Security, and former Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security

Joel Brenner is a quiet heroa lawyer who, after 9/11, forsook a prosperous life to serve the United States on a different kind of front line: the world of intelligence. He has written a book about cyberspace that will inform his fellow citizensand should trouble them deeply. Any reader, casually familiar with the hacking and computer mischief that one reads about daily, will nonetheless be appalled at what he learns here about the scope of cyberespionage, crime, and malicious action that has already been directed against private citizens, corporations, and the government. A lucid, scary, and very important book.

Eliot Cohen, author of Supreme Command andConquered into Liberty

Scarier than a Stephen King novelonly this is nonfiction!

David Smick, author of the international bestseller The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy

For those not living a hermits life, Joel Brenners new book is simply essential reading.... Impressive in its scope... Simultaneously provides a comprehensive review of and prescription for the American cyberstrategy in the twenty-first century, and he does so in a clear, insightful way and with a refreshing sense of humor. [Glass Houses] is an important work. Those who are interested in the strategies that underpin cybersecurity will find this book a valuable read.

The National Strategy Forum Review

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GLASS HOUSES

Joel Brenner is the former senior counsel at the National Security Agency, where he advised on legal and policy issues relating to network security. Previously, he served as the national counterintelligence executive in the office of the director of National Intelligence and as the NSAs inspector general. He is a graduate of the University of WisconsinMadison (BA), the London School of Economics (PhD), and Harvard Law School (JD). Brenner currently practices law in Washington, D.C., specializing in privacy, data security, and related issues.

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First published in the United States of America as America the Vulnerable by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2011

This edition with a new preface published in Penguin Books 2013

Copyright Joel Brenner, 2011, 2013

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Portions of Chapter 10 appeared in Privacy and Security: Why Isnt Cyberspace More Secure? by Joel Brenner, Communications of the ACM, November 2010.

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS:

Brenner, Joel.

America the vulnerable : inside the new threat matrix of digital espionage, crime, and warfare / Joel Brenner.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-59420-313-8 (hc.)

ISBN 978-0-14-312211-1 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-698-14367-8 (eBook)

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