Constructing cybersecurity

Download or read book Constructing cybersecurity written by Andrew Whiting and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructing cybersecurity adopts a constructivist approach to cybersecurity and problematises the state of contemporary knowledge within this field. Setting out by providing a concise overview of such knowledge this book subsequently adopts Foucauldian positions on power and security to highlight assumptions and limitations found herein. What follows is a detailed analysis of the discourse produced by various internet security companies demonstrating the important role that these security professionals play constituting and entrenching this knowledge by virtue of their specific epistemic authority. As a relatively new source within a broader security dispositif these security professionals have created relationships of mutual recognition and benefit with traditional political and security professionals.