US National Cybersecurity
This volume explores the contemporary challenges to US national cybersecurity.
Taking stock of the field, it features contributions by leading experts working at the intersection between academia and government and offers a unique overview of some of the latest debates about national cybersecurity. These contributions showcase the diversity of approaches and issues shaping contemporary understandings of cybersecurity in the West, such as deterrence and governance, cyber intelligence and big data, international cooperation, and publicprivate collaboration. The volumes main contribution lies in its effort to settle the field around three main themes exploring the international politics, concepts, and organization of contemporary cybersecurity from a US perspective. Related to these themes, this volume pinpoints three pressing challenges US decision makers and their allies currently face as they attempt to govern cyberspace: maintaining international order, solving conceptual puzzles to harness the modern information environment, and coordinating the efforts of diverse partners.
The volume will be of much interest to students of cybersecurity, defense studies, strategic studies, security studies, and IR in general.
Damien Van Puyvelde is Assistant Professor of Security Studies at The National Security Studies Institute, The University of Texas at El Paso.
Aaron F. Brantly is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and the Army Cyber Institute, West Point, USA. He is author of The Decision toAttack: Military and Intelligence Cyber Decision-Making (2016).
Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology
Series Editors: Mark Lacy, Dan Prince
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Sean Lawson
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and Brandon Valeriano
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The Routledge Studies in Conflict, Technology and Security series aims to publish challenging studies that map the terrain of technology and security from a range of disciplinary perspectives, offering critical perspectives on the issues that concern publics, business and policymakers in a time of rapid and disruptive technological change.
Nonlinear Science and Warfare
Chaos, complexity and the U.S. military in the information age
Sean T. Lawson
Terrorism Online
Politics, law, technology
Edited by Lee Jarvis, Stuart Macdonald and Thomas M. Chen
Cyber Warfare
A multidisciplinary analysis
Edited by James A. Green
The Politics of Humanitarian Technology
Good intentions, unintended consequences and insecurity
Katja Lindskov Jacobsen
International Conflict and Cyberspace Superiority
Theory and practice
William D. Bryant
Conflict in Cyber Space
Theoretical, strategic and legal perspectives
Edited by Karsten Friis and Jens Ringsmose
US National Cybersecurity
International Politics, Concepts and Organization
Edited by Damien Van Puyvelde and Aaron F. Brantly
First published 2017
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Names: Van Puyvelde, Damien, editor. | Brantly, Aaron F., editor.
Title: US national cybersecurity : international politics, concepts and organization / edited by Damien Van Puyvelde and Aaron F. Brantly.
Other titles: U.S. national cybersecurity | United States national cybersecurity
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge studies in conflict, security and technology | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017010761| ISBN 9780415787994 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315225623 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Computer networksSecurity measuresUnited States. |
CyberspaceSecurity measuresUnited States. | Cyber intelligence (Computer security)United States. | Computer securityGovernment policyUnited States. | National securityUnited States.
Classification: LCC TK5105.59 .U68 2017 | DDC 363.325dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017010761
ISBN: 978-0-415-78799-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-22562-3 (ebk)
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Contents
DAMIEN VAN PUYVELDE AND AARON F. BRANTLY
PART I
The international politics of cybersecurity
JON LINDSAY AND ERIK GARTZKE
NEREA M. CAL
BRIAN M. MAZANEC
TIM RIDOUT
PART II
Conceptualizing cybersecurity
JAN KALBERG
AARON F. BRANTLY
ERMESTY. WONG, KATHERINE R. HUTTON, AND RYAN F. GAGNON
STEPHEN SCUBA GARY AND RANDY BORUM
AARON F. BRANTLY
PART III
Organizing cybersecurity
KRISTAN STODDART
DAMIEN VAN PUYVELDE
SCOT BETHEL AND JOHN WHISENHUNT
AARON F. BRANTLY AND DAMIEN VAN PUYVELDE
Scott Bethel (MSc Strategic Intelligence, Joint Military Intelligence College, Washington, DC; National Defense Fellow, Boston University) is a retired US Air Force Brigadier General. He is CEO of Integrity ISR LLC, and Senior Vice President for Intelligence and International Training, JMark Services, Inc.
Randy Borum is a Professor and Coordinator of Strategy and Intelligence Studies in the School of Information at the University of South Florida. He is author/co-author of approximately 160 professional publications, has worked with three Directors of National Intelligence (DNI) on the Intelligence Science Board, served on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Understanding Human Dynamics, and is an instructor with the Bureau of Justice Assistance State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Programs for Investigations and Intelligence.
Aaron F. Brantly is Assistant Professor of Cyber and International Relations in the Departments of Social Sciences and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Cyber Fellow at the Army Cyber Institute and Cyber Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and a Masters of Public Policy from The American University. He served as United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine. He worked for 10 years in democracy development, most recently as a Senior Program Officer for ICT Innovation at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and previously at the International Republican Institute for Advancing Democracy World-wide. His latest book, The Decision to Attack. Military and Intelligence Cyber Decision-Making, was published by University of Georgia Press.