Cyberspace and Cybersecurity

by George Kostopoulos

Overview

Providing comprehensive coverage of cyberspace and cybersecurity, this textbook not only focuses on technologies but also explores human factors and organizational perspectives and emphasizes why asset identification should be the cornerstone of any information security strategy. Topics include addressing vulnerabilities, building a secure enterprise, blocking intrusions, ethical and legal issues, and business continuity. Updates include topics such as cyber risks in mobile telephony, steganography, cybersecurity as an added value, ransomware defense, review of recent cyber laws, new types of cybercrime, plus new chapters on digital currencies and encryption key management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367657550
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	09/30/2020
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. George K. Kostopoulos is a faculty member at the University of Maryland University College, where he serves and teaches as a faculty mentor in the master’s degree programs in cybersecurity and information assurance. Dr. Kostopoulos has an extensive international academic career, having taught in seventeen universities around the world, including Boston University, Texas A&M International University, Florida Atlantic University, the University of Heidelberg (Germany), and the American University of Sharjah (UAE). He is the author of numerous scholarly papers and two other books, "Digital Engineering" and "Greece and the European Economic Community." Dr. Kostopoulos received his master’s and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Arizona State University, and a master’s in economics from California State Polytechnic University. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cybersecurity and Information Assurance and a reviewer of numerous scientific conferences.

Table of Contents

Vulnerabilities in Information Systems

Vulnerabilities in the Organization

Risk in Information System Infrastructure

Secure Information Systems

Cybersecurity and the CIO

Building a Secure Organization

Cyberspace Intrusions

Cyberspace Defence

Cyberspace and the Law

Cyber Warfare and Homeland Security

Digital Currencies

Editorial Reviews

…a timely read, and even more so, a trusted resource … covers a great deal of ground very well and its tutorial and comprehensive checklist style pulls even the risk discussions together in an understandable and educational manner that reinforces awareness to the critical attributes found within this manmade domain. … each individual chapter deals with an important and realistic aspect of cybersecurity together with the vulnerabilities and risks. Together, the chapters provide a first-rate overview of this exceedingly complex topic, a perspective that has equally horizontal as well as vertical implications, and will keep the reader cognizant of the interrelationships among the disparate disciplines making up cyberspace.
—Riley Repko, CEO, Trusted Cyber Solutions LLC & Senior Research Fellow, Virginia Tech University

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