Hacking the Nation-State: Security, Information Technology and Policies of Assurance∗

Bronk, Chris

doi:10.1080/19393550802178565

“…In their efforts to regulate the use of cyberspace within their own borders, states have enacted multiple legislations and instituted new structures and actors (Betz and Stevens 2011). Fundamentally, it has become apparent that states cannot assure the security of information systems alone; instead, responsibility for information security needs to be dispersed across all stakeholders, because the majority of cyberspace is owned and operated by private companies (Bronk 2008). Thus, states will often need to request that private actors operating in their territories take the necessary actions to prevent or terminate detrimental international cyber conduct.…”

Section: Fragmentation Of Authoritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyber Security Politics

Cavelty¹,

Wenger²

2022

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This book examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation.Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses interact, the first part of the book looks at the current use of cyberspace in conflictual settings, while the second focuses on political responses by state and non-state actors in an environment defined by uncertainties. Within this, it highlights four key debates that encapsulate the complexities and paradoxes of cyber security politics from a Western perspective -how much political influence states can achieve via cyber operations and what context factors condition the (limited) strategic utility of such operations; the role of emerging digital technologies and how the dynamics of the tech innovation process reinforce the fragmentation of the governance space; how states attempt to uphold stability in cyberspace and, more generally, in their strategic relations; and how the shared responsibility of state, economy, and society for cyber security continues to be re-negotiated in an increasingly transsectoral and transnational governance space. This book will be of much interest to students of cyber security, global governance, technology studies, and international relations.

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“…In their efforts to regulate the use of cyberspace within their own borders, states have enacted multiple legislations and instituted new structures and actors (Betz and Stevens 2011). Fundamentally, it has become apparent that states cannot assure the security of information systems alone; instead, responsibility for information security needs to be dispersed across all stakeholders, because the majority of cyberspace is owned and operated by private companies (Bronk 2008). Thus, states will often need to request that private actors operating in their territories take the necessary actions to prevent or terminate detrimental international cyber conduct.…”

Section: Fragmentation Of Authoritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyberspace in space

Eriksson¹,

Giacomello²

2022

Cyber Security Politics

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This book examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation.Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses interact, the first part of the book looks at the current use of cyberspace in conflictual settings, while the second focuses on political responses by state and non-state actors in an environment defined by uncertainties. Within this, it highlights four key debates that encapsulate the complexities and paradoxes of cyber security politics from a Western perspective -how much political influence states can achieve via cyber operations and what context factors condition the (limited) strategic utility of such operations; the role of emerging digital technologies and how the dynamics of the tech innovation process reinforce the fragmentation of the governance space; how states attempt to uphold stability in cyberspace and, more generally, in their strategic relations; and how the shared responsibility of state, economy, and society for cyber security continues to be re-negotiated in an increasingly transsectoral and transnational governance space. This book will be of much interest to students of cyber security, global governance, technology studies, and international relations.

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“…This case illustrates that seemingly no system is completely secure. Both individuals interacting with a seemingly secure network as well as network structures themselves always bear a certain degree of vulnerability (Bronk, 2008). Hence, personal data that is stored up to ten years certainly is not safe.…”

Section: Marblementioning

confidence: 99%

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2019

MARBLE

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Marble Research Papers it to several legal texts and news outlets, interferences are drawn to delineate the facets and timeline of the rise of whistleblowers protection on the EU agenda. While Ganapini's and Rick's research is dedicated to the development of EU policies that are directed against the practice of whistleblowing, Jonas Bradtke focusses on controversial counterterrorist policy in Germany. The relationship between privacy and security appears to be one of the grand dichotomies of western thought. How much privacy a citizen is willing-and should be willing-to sacrifice for the sake of privacy has been long debated. Bradtke devotes his attention to the newly introduced Police Law in North-Rhine Westphalia (PolG NRW). He employs a rather unique political science approach in the form of a taxonomy. In a careful manner, Bradtke categorises and evaluates sections of the newly introduced bill in North-Rhine Westphalia. He was concerned to know how privacy is perceived throughout the newly introduced law and whether that definition is at odds with citizens' perception of privacy. His work identifies potentially harmful activities for personal privacy within the PolG NRW and chases back shortcomings to an incomplete understanding of privacy. A directly experienceable form of the broader phenomenon of transparency is physical surveillance. Maximilian Grönegräs examines how architecture can be employed in order to monitor humans and gain control over their behaviour. The author focusses on the architectural example of the prison, which is designed in fundamentally different ways in Germany and the United States (US). With the aim of finding out to what extent German prison architecture can serve as a model for the improvement of prison architecture in the US, the author conducts an international comparison between the two countries. He closely considers the German perspective on prison design by interviewing three architects, who either have been or still are responsible for undertaking structural changes within two different German prisons. Among the main findings of Grönegräs' research is the observation that in both Germany and the US prison architecture is primarily determined by the country's respective dominant political and societal values. While Germany attempts to reduce the architectural surveillance of prisoners and increase their chances of becoming valuable members of society, US prisons deprive inmates of the majority of their former rights as citizens and allow their exploitation as a source of cheap labour. Just like Grönegräs, Emma Béat takes up the subject of physical surveillance by making use of a novel approach. Wishing to explore the relationship between academic writings on surveillance and elements of popular culture that concern themselves with the modern dimension of surveillance, Béat used the opportunity offered by the MaRBLe programme to illustrate such relationship in a creative and pedagogical way. To do so, she prepared an audio-guide companion to Nosedive, one of the most illustr...

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Hacking the Nation-State: Security, Information Technology and Policies of Assurance∗

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