How Liberal Democracies Defend Their Cyber Networks from Hackers: Strategies of Deterrence [Hardcover]

This book outlines the main technological, legal, and operational options that liberal democratic nations have when confronting challenges in cyberspace. It offers a range of policy ideas they can adopt to make their defense stronger and deter future cyber-attacks. The author explores how liberal societies, especially those in the Western world, have so far confronted a variety of cybersecurity challenges by hackers in nondemocratic regimes like Russia and China. and zooms in on the main challenges that democratic states face in adopting strategies of cyber deterrence, and how those challenges shape their ability to actually deter hackers.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Democracy and cyber deterrence.- Chapter 3: Why defensive measures are just too defensive: strategy of denial.- Chapter 4: Why hard measures are just too hard: strategy of punishment through offensive cyber operations.- Chapter 5: Why soft measures are just too soft: international law and norms.- Chapter 6: Between hard and soft: active defense countermeasures.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Nori Katagiri is Associate Professor of Political Science and Coordinator (Director) of International Studies at Saint Louis University (SLU). He is also Associate Editor of Global Studies Quarterly and the author of Adapting to Win: How Insurgent Forces Fight and Defeat Foreign States in War. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania

A much-needed, timely analysis of evolving cyber security concerns for liberal democracies. Katagiri puts forward the notion of cyber deterrence as presenting viable strategic options for countering hacking group sponsored by authoritarian states. This erudite and balanced study on the opportunities and challenges associated with cyber deterrence in democratic contexts will make a significant contribution to literature on emerging telß