You'll see this message when it is too late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches (Information Policy) - Hardcover

Josephine Wolff; Sandra Braman; Paul T. Jaeger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262038854 ISBN 13: 9780262038850

Publisher: MIT Press, 2018

Synopsis

What we can learn from the aftermath of cybersecurity breaches and how we can do a better job protecting online data. Cybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach-the theft of 145.5 million Americans'' information from Equifax, for example, or the Russian government''s theft of National Security Agency documents, or the Sony Pictures data dump-makes headlines, inspires panic, instigates lawsuits, and is then forgotten. The cycle of alarm and amnesia continues with the next attack, and the one after that. In this book, cybersecurity expert Josephine Wolff argues that we shouldn''t forget about these incidents, we should investigate their trajectory, from technology flaws to reparations for harm done to their impact on future security measures. We can learn valuable lessons in the aftermath of cybersecurity breaches. Wolff describes a series of significant cybersecurity incidents between 2005 and 2015, mapping the entire life cycle of each breach in order to identify opportunities for defensive intervention. She outlines three types of motives underlying these attacks-financial gain, espionage, and public humiliation of the victims-that have remained consistent through a decade of cyberattacks, offers examples of each, and analyzes the emergence of different attack patterns. The enormous TJX breach in 2006, for instance, set the pattern for a series of payment card fraud incidents that led to identity fraud and extortion; the Chinese army conducted cyberespionage campaigns directed at U.S.-based companies from 2006 to 2014, sparking debate about the distinction between economic and political espionage; and the 2014 breach of the Ashley Madison website was aimed at reputations rather than bank accounts.

About this title

Review:

This is the kind of book whose cogent organization and clear writing sticks with you... Essential.

--CHOICE

About the Author:

Josephine Wolff is Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Her writing on cybersecurity has appeared in Slate, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and Wired.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0262038854
• ISBN 13: 9780262038850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336