Dr. Mark A Gregory is an award winning professor teaching the next generation of Australian engineers.
What new knowledge have you gained while researching for the book?
The bookSecurity and the Networked Societycan be purchased in ebook format online fromSpringer.
Below is the first chapter of the book.
The Industrial Revolution (17601820) however, occurred over more than a century and affected predominately western civilization.
We now share more with each other than at any time in history.
This essence, to some brings anonymity, privacy and security.
The Internet has also brought hope, education and awareness to the masses.
Sound government policy is often a tradeoff between consumer and business interests.
Careful preparation of legislation and regulation provides certainty.
This collection of articles attempts to do exactly this.
We have grouped these articles into chapters that refl ect attributes the articles share.
This however artificially separates events that are in fact linked.
The rise of Anonymous as a hacking/activist collective for example defi ned our understanding of this movement.
But hacktivism is intertwined with cyber-crime, cyber terrorism and government, and everyones use of the Internet.
At the same time, cyber-crime continued its inexorable rise and companies and governments struggled to deal with it.
Distinguishing cyber-crime from cyber war was another recent problem.
That a technology company should become the most valuable company is not surprising considering its relative impact on society.
Exactly how this has come to be is another thread in the narrative that follows.
