Constructing cybersecurity
Power, expertise and the internet security industry
- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Cybersecurity knowledge: cohesion, contestation and constructivism
- Chapter 2 Security dispositifs and security professionals
- Chapter 3 Constructing the milieu
- Chapter 4 Constructing cyber-threats
- Chapter 5 Constructing cybersecurity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index