The world has entered the digital age. We rely on the internet for information, communication and so much more; and technology influences almost every aspect of modern society, from personal banking to the management of global conflict. As an area of academic study, ‘cybercrime’ is still very much in the initial stages of development, as even the experts struggle to come to terms with ever-quickening pace of technological change and proliferation. This syllabus provides insight into some of the sources currently available on cybercrime and cybersecurity (with an additional focus on the controversial issue of ‘cyberwarfare’). 
Recent Journal Articles
 |
Defending a New Domain: The Pentagon’s Cyberstrategy William J Lynn III Foreign Affairs September/October 2010 |
 |
The Council of Europe’s Cyber Crime Treaty: An Exercise in Symbolic Legislation Nancy E Marion International Journal of Cyber Criminology July/December 2010 |
 |
Stuxnet: Cyberwar Revolution in Military Affairs Paulo Shakarian Small Wars Journal April 2011 |
 |
Cyber Warfare and the Crime of Aggression Jonathon Ophardt Duke Law and Technology Review February 2010 |
Other Essays and Commentaries
| “Cyber Attacks, Real or Imagined, and Cyber War” James Lewis Center for Strategic and International Studies July, 2011 |
“Building a Cyber Secure Plant” Eric Byrnes Totally Integrated Automation September, 2010 |
|
| “War in the Fifth Domain” Matt Murphy The Economist July, 2010 |
“Hacker Highway” Anthony Sibillin BRW March, 2010 |
New and Upcoming Texts
| On Cyber Warfare Paul Cornish, David Livingstone, Dave Clemente and Claire Yorke; Chatham House/Brookings Institution Press, 2011 |
 |
| Cybercrime: The Investigation, Prosecution and Defense of Computer Related Crime Ralph D Clifford (ed.) Carolina Academic Press, 2011 |
 |
| Cybercrime Robert Moore; Elsevier, 2011 |
 |
| Cybercrime and Espionage Will Gragido and John Pirc; Elsevier, 2011 |
 |
| Principles of Cybecrime Jonathon Clough Cambridge University Press, 2010 |
 |
| Internet Governance in an Age of Cyber Insecurity Robert K Knake; Council on Foreign Relations/Brookings institutions Press, 2010 |
 |
Sources being taught*
Introduction to Computer Security
Michael Goodrich and Roberta Tamassia
Addison Wesley, 2011
‘Lessons from the First Great Cyberwar Era’
A M Rutkowski
Info, Vol 12, No 1, Feb 2010
‘Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency’
Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2008
W32.Stuxnet Dossier
N Falliere, L O Murchu, Eric Chein
Symantec Security Response, 2011
Cyber Security and International Agreements
Abraham Sofaer, David Clark, Whitfield Diffie
National Research Council, 2010
*Selected from Professor John Savage’s Spring 2011 course on Cyber Security and International Relations at Brown University, United States.
Recent Reports and Surveys
| “Reducing Systematic Cybersecurity Risk” Peter Sommer, Ian Brown OECD January, 2011 |
“Cyber Events Since 2006” James Lewis Center for Strategic and International Studies July, 2011 |
|
| “Cyber Security Two Years Later“ Centre for Strategic and International Studies January, 2011 |
“2011 EECTF European Cybercrime Survey” European Electronic Crime Task Force 2011 |
Official International Documents
Council of Europe’s Convention on Cybercrime
The ISN’s own Digital Library contains further sources: