Legal challenges to cyber security institutions

Title
Legal challenges to cyber security institutions
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Quirico, Ottavio
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8268-7501
Email: oquirico@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:oquirico
Editor
Editor(s): Hitoshi Nasu and Kim Rubenstein
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Edition
1
Series
Connecting International Law with Public Law
UNE publication id
une:19155
Abstract
The past decade may be portrayed as a period of growing cyber threats and a time of increasing cyber insecurity. In fact, given that societies increasingly rely on information systems and the Internet, cyberspace - a virtual and interactive, non-physical environment created through computer networks accessible regardless of geographic location - has become a vulnerable landscape. Thus, governmental authorities around the world have launched cyber security programmes. For example, the Australian Cyber Security Strategy defines the roles, responsibilities and policies of Australian intelligence, cyber and policing agencies to protect Australian Internet users. The United States (US) funded the Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid through its Departments of Energy and Homeland Security, which aims to secure new 'smart meters' against hackers' attacks. Similarly, the Infocomm Security Masterplan in Singapore seeks to defend national critical infrastructures, such as finance, energy, water and telecommunications, against cyber attacks. The European Union considers cyber terrorist threats the highest priority for the security of critical energy infrastructure.
Link
Citation
Legal Perspectives on Security Institutions, p. 308-322
ISBN
9781107102781
Start page
308
End page
322

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