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.The growth of the Internet has been accompanied by an increase in the number and importance of malicious actors who seek to undertake all types of nefarious activities in cyberspace. As a result, there is an ongoing battle today to secure the cyber domain – cyber security has emerged as a major issue that affects every user of the Internet. To describe this situation, this chapter identifies some common terms and concepts related to Internet security. It describes several cyber-attacks to illustrate how cyber security poses an ongoing challenge. It also provides examples of ongoing initiatives undertaken by the United States and the International Community to improve cyber security. It concludes by exploring threats to the expanding confluence of connected devices known as the “Internet of Things.”

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    Scott Jasper & James Wirtz

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  1. Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

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  2. Department of War Studies, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

    Huw Dylan

  3. Department of War Studies, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

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Jasper, S., Wirtz, J. (2017). Cyber Security. In: Dover, R., Dylan, H., Goodman, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Security, Risk and Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53675-4_9

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