Cyber Conflicts and Small States

Lech J. Janczewski is Associate Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He wrote above 300 publications presented in scientific journals, conference proceedings and books. He is the chairperson of the New Zealand Information Security Forum, secretary of the IFIP committee on Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems and the Fellow of the Institute of IT Professionals (former New Zealand Computer Society). Professor William Caelli is Professor Emeritus at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. He is Director of International Information Security Consultants Pty Ltd (IISEC) and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University on the Gold Coast in Queensland. He has 40 years' experience in all aspects of information/cyber security and over 50 years' experience in ICT overall.

This book poses the question: to what extent should, or can, a small country prepare itself for handling a range of cyber threats? Looking at cyber-warfare, cyber-terrorism, cyber-crime and associated concerns, national experts from New Zealand, Australia, The Netherlands, and Poland present analyses of cyber-defence realities, priorities and options for smaller countries. They show that what is needed is the ability of small nations to be able to define and prepare appropriate responses such as the role of military/law enforcement/business entities, continuity and resilience strategies, incident response and business continuity plans and more for handing nationally-aimed cyber-attacks.

Introduction, Lech J. Janczewski and William Caelli; Information technology's cultural setting: some considerations, Eleanor Crosby; Small states in the cyber age: swimming safely in the ocean of data, Ian Fletcher; An overview of the unique ICT situation of small states, Lech J. Janczewski; Current cyber wars, Philip Whitmore; National cyber security organisation: Part I: The Netherlands, Eric Luiijf; Part II: New Zealand, Chris Roberts; Part III: Australia, William Caelli; Part IV: Poland, Piotr Sienkiewicz, Halina ¿wieboda and Edyta Szczepaniuk; Security of small countries: summary and model, Lech J. Janczewski and William Caelli; Prognosis and countermeasures, Lech J. Janczewski and William Caelli; Index.