Global Initiatives to Secure Cyberspace An Emerging Landscape /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Portnoy, Michael (Editor), Goodman, Seymour (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Series: Advances in Information Security, 42
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer organization.; Computer communication systems.; Computer security.; Data structures (Computer science).; Data encryption (Computer science).; Computer Science.; Systems and Data Security.; Computer Communication Networks.; Data Encryption.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.

The ease of access, relative anonymity, and borderless nature of the Internet has allowed widespread computer-based crime – or cybercrime – to proliferate rapidly. Law enforcement and international security organizations, along with governments and the private sector, have only recently begun to app...

Table of Contents:

• The International Landscape of Cyber Security
• A Brief History of Global Responses to Cyber Threats
• International Intergovernmental Organizations
• Regional Intergovernmental Organizations
• Private-Public and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
• Making global cyberspace more secure…?.