Constructing cybersecurity: Power, expertise and the security industry

Andrew Whiting

doi:10.7765/9781526123336

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 therein. 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. The book argues that one important product of these relationships is the continued centrality of the state within issues of cybersecurity and the extension of a strategy of neoliberal governance.

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Power, expertise and the security industry

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-viii

Introduction
pp 1-12

1 - Cybersecurity knowledge: cohesion, contestation and constructivism
pp 13-44

2 - Security dispositifs and security professionals
pp 45-69

3 - Constructing the milieu
pp 70-98

4 - Constructing cyber-threats
pp 99-125

Conclusion
pp 150-156

Notes
pp 157-160

Bibliography
pp 161-196

Index
pp 197-204

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