Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The information age and cyber-threats : shifting meanings and interpretations
  • Politics and threat construction : theoretical underpinnings
  • The hostile intelligence threat, data security, and encryption set the stage
  • Asymmetric vulnerabilities and the double-edged sword of information warfare : developments in the military domain
  • Critical infrastructures and homeland security
  • Securing the information age : failed securitisation or a new logic of security?
  • Cyber-threats and security in the information age : issues and implications.