Breaking the Cyber-Security Dilemma: Aligning Security Needs and Removing Vulnerabilities.
Current approaches to cyber-security are not working. Rather than producing more security, we seem to be facing less and less. The reason for this is a multi-dimensional and multi-faceted security dilemma that extends beyond the state and its interaction with other states. It will be shown how the f...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 701 - 716 |
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