The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace

. He splits his time between Boston, Vienna and The Hague. He has acted as an advisor to a number of governments and international organizations on cybersecurity strategy and internet governance, and has participated in various national, international, NATO and EU policy groups. Alexander Klimburg is a program director at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and an associate and former fellow

Klimburg provides a broad overview of the technical and political underpinnings of the Internet and reveals how many of them are being eroded by short-sightedness and national pride. Secretary of Homeland Security“Alexander Klimburg provides a chilling but well-informed and readable tour of cyber interdependence. Reading it is well worth the effort. This book is indispensable—not only for national security officials formulating policies on cyber conflict, cyber crime and cyber governance, but for any reader seeking a strong grounding in this critically important material and what it means for our global future.”—Michael Chertoff, former U.S. The dark side of cyberspace is a dauntin

Focusing on different approaches to cyber-conflict in the US, Russia and China, he reveals the extent to which the battle for control of the Internet is as complex and perilous as the one surrounding nuclear weapons during the Cold War—and quite possibly as dangerous for humanity as a whole. "A chilling but well-informed and readable tour of cyber interdependence. Nye, Jr., author of The Future of PowerNo single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet.   Blending anecdote with argument, Klimburg brings us face-to-face with the range o