Digital Defense A Cybersecurity Primer
Drs. Pelton and Singh warn of the increasing risks of cybercrime and lay out a series of commonsense precautions to guard against individual security breaches. This guide clearly explains the technology at issue, the points of weakness, and the best ways
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A Cybersecurity Primer
Digital Defense
Joseph N. Pelton • Indu B. Singh
Digital Defense A Cybersecurity Primer
Joseph N. Pelton Executive Board International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute Arlington, VA, USA
Indu B. Singh LATA’s Global Institute for Security Training Los Alamos Technical Associates McLean, VA, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-19952-8 ISBN 978-3-319-19953-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-19953-5
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This book is dedicated to the hardworking cyber security community that seeks to develop antivirus software, firewalls, and protective systems to defend against hackers and cybercriminals that would invade your digital world. We hope that this book can help to save would-be targets of cybercriminals and that the advice in this book will help to stem attacks by those that seek to use the Internet for ill-gotten gain and other nefarious purposes.
President Obama’s Official Statement of February 13, 2015, on Cybersecurity and its strategic importance to the United States:
America’s economic prosperity, national security, and our individual liberties depend on our commitment to securing cyberspace and maintaining an open, interoperable, secure, and reliable Internet. Our critical infrastructure continues to be at risk from threats in cyberspace, and our economy is harmed by the theft of our intellectual property. Although the threats are serious and they constantly evolve, I believe that if we address them effectively, we can ensure that the Internet remains an engine for economic
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