Constructing Cybersecurity
Power, Expertise and the Internet Security Industry
1st Edition
Published on 9. May 2020
216 pages
978-1-5261-2333-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-2333-6 (9781526123336)
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05/2020
Manchester University Press
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Content
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Cybersecurity knowledge: cohesion, contestation and constructivism
- Security dispositifs and security professionals
- Constructing the milieu
- Constructing cyber-threats
- Constructing cybersecurity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
