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Past Event
Seminar

The Cybersecurity Dilemma: A Book Talk with Dr. Ben Buchanan

Open to the Public

Please join the Cyber Security Project for a talk with Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Ben Buchanan on his new book The Cybersecurity Dilemma: Hacking, Trust, and Fear Between Nations.*

*Open to the public; seating and admittance available on a first come, first served basis. Dr. Buchanan will be available following the event for book signing.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Gundle Family Classroom, Room 230
Buchanan Book Cover

About

Why do nations break into one another's most important computer networks? There is an obvious answer: to steal valuable information or to attack. But this isn't the full story. This book draws on often-overlooked documents leaked by Edward Snowden, real-world case studies of cyber operations, and policymaker perspectives to show that intruding into other countries' networks has enormous defensive value as well. Two nations, neither of which seeks to harm the other but neither of which trusts the other, will often find it prudent to penetrate each other's systems. This general problem, in which a nation's means of security itself threatens the security of others and risks escalating tension, is a bedrock concept in international relations and is called the 'security dilemma'.