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In this paper we explore the extent to which privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) could be effective in providing privacy to citizens. Rapid development of ubiquitous computing and ‘the internet of things’ are leading to Big Data and the application of Predictive Analytics, effectively merging the real …

This paper describes a concept where products are equipped with agents that will assist in recycling and repairing the product. These so-called product agents represent the product in cyberspace and are capable to negotiate with other products in case of recycling or repair. Some product agents of broken …

The authors examine the remarkable rise of cyberspace as an arena of interest for national and international security policy through the prism of 'securitization' theory. Considering the relative few serious cyber attacks to date, what explains this rise to prominence and is it actually justified, or …

Next to sea, land, air and space, cyberspace appears to be the fifth operational domain for the military. This manmade and virtual sphere brings along opportunities and threats. In this book, academics of the Netherlands Defence Academy as well as specialists and military professionals from other institutions …

The authors make an attempt to economize the 'feeling of being secure' in times of cyber threats. They distinguish the direct costs of cyber attacks, the indirect costs that follow from the responses to deter (possible) attacks and the indirect expenditures resulting from the rules and regulations that …

By critically analysing the initial worries concerning public reactions and the actual responses to attacks by new military technologies (strategic bombing during World War II), to natural disasters (Hurricane Katrina), to the 2003 Blackouts (in the US), and to terrorist attacks (9/11), the author concludes …

The authors concentrate on the cooperation of organisations - from government and the market sector - to address cyber threats. They discern three network action models that respectively deal with organisations' routine wrestling to fight every day's attacks on digital systems, a possible disruption …

Cyber war is the result of complex technologies that not many people really comprehend. However, insight into this complexity is needed to analyse the vulnerability or the opposite -the robustness and resilience- of the digital networks that are targeted by cyberthreats. Based on mathematical game theory, …

The authors explore the policy responses that have seen the light of day recently in various countries and organisations in response to the threats in or originating from cyberspace. This overview encompasses general policy as wel as military policy )i.e. strategy, doctrine and-or practise'. It shows …