Thinking about Cybersecurity: From Cyber Crime to Cyber Warfare

By: Paul Rosenzweig, The Great Courses

Narrated by: Paul Rosenzweig

Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

Cyberspace is the 21st century’s greatest engine of change. Telecommunications, commercial and financial systems, government operations, food production - virtually every aspect of global civilization now depends on interconnected cyber systems to operate; systems that have helped advance medicine, streamline everyday commerce, and so much more.

Thinking about Cybersecurity: From Cyber Crime to Cyber Warfare is your guide to understanding the intricate nature of this pressing subject. Delivered by cybersecurity expert and professor Paul Rosenzweig, these 18 engaging lectures will open your eyes to the structure of the Internet, the unique dangers it breeds, and the ways we’re learning how to understand, manage, and reduce these dangers.

In addition, Professor Rosenzweig offers sensible tips on how best to protect yourself, your network, or your business from attack or data loss.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this course are those of the professor and do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

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Required if you use the internet!

What did you love best about Thinking about Cybersecurity: From Cyber Crime to Cyber Warfare?

A great course. Everyone who uses the internet should take this course to understand the vulnerabilities that exist in cyber space today and the responses available.

Pluses:
• The professor covered the following material well:
o How the five gateways of internet vulnerability result in cyber threats being drastically different from traditional threats/war
o Descriptions of the various types of threats (including DDoS, Botnets, financial/intellectual theft, espionage, war acts such as the disruption of the electrical grid or shutting down a uranium enrichment facility, and hardware-based threats)
o Descriptions of the malicious actors in cyberspace (including petty criminals, organized crime, hacktivists, and nation states)
o The legal ramifications of violating a “terms of service” you accept when you sign up for a service on the internet
o The debate on whether the government should provide oversight of cyber security on the internet as a whole and, if so, how much? Can policies keep up with the pace of technological advances?
o The debate on whether the government should monitor internet usage for national security reasons and, if so, to what degree?
o The debate on the definition of privacy in this new age: Do our existing privacy laws need to be revised and updated to reflect technological advances?
• The professor provided both sides of an argument or case for the controversy topics such as privacy protection and government policy on cyber security controls and gave his own views
• The professor kept the technical minutia to a minimum making it easy to follow the technological discussions

One minus:
• I found myself hoping the professor would’ve provided a few more examples (whether real life use cases or theoretic possibilities) when explaining certain topics (such as hardware threats)

Outstanding course

What did you love best about Thinking about Cybersecurity: From Cyber Crime to Cyber Warfare?

This course will not make you a cyber security expert, but covers the growing dark economy, and how this new domain is changing everything.

What other book might you compare Thinking about Cybersecurity: From Cyber Crime to Cyber Warfare to and why?

Inside Cyber Warfare

What about Professor Paul Rosenzweig’s performance did you like?

He was able to present facts, without the "Digital Pearl Harbor" crap we get from most of the so called experts.

What’s the most interesting tidbit you’ve picked up from this book?

Zeta cartel run in with Anonymous

amazing and must listen

I'll love this lecture it was informative and it was eye opening and a couraging this is a must listen ready one who's looking to understand more about cyber-security and personal security

it's very informative.

thanks for whoever led the publication. appreciate it.
I'm currently living in Taiwan and couldn't access to hardcopy here.
So audible is great!

Fantastic Course

Would you listen to Thinking about Cybersecurity: From Cyber Crime to Cyber Warfare again? Why?

This is a fantastic course, illustrating how many perspectives there are to cybersecurity. This is the future of warfare, and it impacts civilians - and it's scary. This should be taught at every university.

What about Professor Paul Rosenzweig’s performance did you like?

He gives an excellent delivery. His passion for the subject comes through.

it really helped me to appreciate the complexity

it really helped me to appreciate the complexity of the internet and security. Good book!

Very informative, well researched, and engaging

Great for the technologically adept and inept! Concepts are explained with real world analogs and examples. Theories are related to their actual application in everyday life. Fantastic book. The narrator's voice and performance takes a little to get used to, but not bad at all.

Covers all the Basics and More

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I would have liked to complete the series in a single sitting. The presenters speaking style was dynamic and the content was presented concisely and with a real sense of conviction.

Any additional comments?

This would be good materials for someone that requires continuing education points for a cyber security certification or as an introduction to the concepts and impacts of cyber operations in the real world.

Great course for cyber security beginners

Well spoken and presented. Informative and a good introduction and background to cyber security and the risks that we face.

Basic and policy oriented

Any additional comments?

This book is oriented around the legal and policy questions that are emerging from the information age that we are living in. In my opinion it will be of more interest to legal scholars and policy makers, than to readers interested in the 0's and 1's of cyber security. That withstanding, I think this lecture series is very well suited for the legal audience as the author presents the material in a very clear and understandable manner, without much technical jargon.