Cybersecurity is an active and important area of study, practice, and research today. It spans various fields including cyber terrorism, cyber warfare, electronic civil disobedience, governance and security, hacking and hacktivism, information management and security, internet and controls, law enforcement, national security, privacy, protection of society and the rights of the individual, social engineering, terrorism, and more. This book compiles original and innovative findings on issues relating to cybersecurity and threats. This comprehensive reference explores the developments, methods, approaches, and surveys of cyber threats and security in a wide variety of fields and endeavors. It specifically focuses on cyber threats, cyberattacks, cyber techniques, artificial intelligence, cyber threat actors, and other related cyber issues. The book provides researchers, practitioners, academicians, military professionals, government officials, and other industry professionals with an in-depth discussion of the state-of-the-art advances in the field of cybersecurity.

These Proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 11th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance held this year at the Military Academy, Lisbon, Portugal on the 12-13 November 2015 The Conference Chair is Major-General Joao Vieira Borges from and the Pro-gramme Chair is Lieutenant-Colonel Jose Carlos Dias Rouco, both from the Mili-tary Academy, Lisbon, Portugal. Keynote presentations are given by Colonel Nuno Lemos Pires from the Military Academy and Lt Col Paulo Fernando Viegas Nunes from the National Defence Institute, Lisbon, Portugal. The Conference offers an opportunity for scholars and practitioners interested in the issues related to Management, Leadership and Governance to share their thinking and research findings. These fields of study are broadly described as including issues related to the management of the organisations' resources, the interface between senior management and the formal governance of the organi-sation. This Conference provides a forum for discussion, collaboration and intel-lectual exchange for all those interested in any of these fields of research or practice. With an initial submission of 163 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 64 Academic research Papers, 8 PhD Research Papers and 2 Masters research paper in these Conference Proceedings. These papers reflect the truly global nature of research in the area with contributions from Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Syria, The Netherlands, Turkey, UAE, UK, United Arab Emirates, USA."

With the rapid development of technologies, it becomes increasingly important for us to remain up-to-date on new and emerging technologies. This series, therefore, aims to deliver content on current and future technologies and how the young generation benefits from this.

Blockchain has the potential to revolutionize how people and organizations, who may not know or trust each other, share information and carry out transactions online. Nearly every institution on the planet wants to be a leader in blockchain technology as well as a home to significant platforms, applications, and companies. There is a need for a glocal policy to meet and support these goals as blockchain technology must embrace glocal values and ideals in its legal and regulatory frameworks. Glocal Policy and Strategies for Blockchain: Building Ecosystems and Sustainability discusses the features and advantages of blockchain technology, the innovative applications of blockchain technology, and the potent and limited aspects of blockchain technology. Covering topics such as digital change, international policy, and cyber security governance, this reference work is ideal for industry professionals, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

The 2006 edition of UNICEF's annual report focuses on the millions of children who are most in need of access to essential education, health and protection services, but who are also the hardest to reach and often overlooked by current development programmes. These include children living in the poorest countries and most deprived communities within countries, children who face discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity or disability, children caught up in armed conflicts or affected by HIV/AIDS, children who lack a formal identity and who suffer from abuse and exploitation. The report examines the factors which result in their exclusion from current child development programmes and services, and highlights the policy options and actions required to address these challenges, in order to ensure all children benefit from the progress being made to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Topics discussed include: income disparities and child survival, the marginalisation of Roma communities and their children, disability issues, children and HIV/AIDS, children living on the streets, early marriages, child labour, child protection and child rights.

Networks as sets of autonomous organisations working together to achieve individual and shared goals are becoming increasingly important across many areas of public administration. The importance of networks is well known but most analysts would agree that we do not know enough about the dynamics and effectiveness of networks in relation to their internal operations. This is a significant problem as security, intelligence, law enforcement and many other agencies are increasingly required to organise in and through networks to provide national security. In this comprehensive analysis, Chad Whelan presents a highly innovative, qualitative study of networks in the field of national security. Developing our understanding of 'organisational networks' in organisational theory, management and public administration, and 'security networks' in criminology and international relations, he presents a multi-disciplinary analysis of network forms of organisation. Whelan puts forward a methodological framework involving five levels of analysis - structural, cultural, policy, technological and relational - with which we can better analyse and understand the dynamics and effectiveness of networks. This framework is applied to public sector networks operating in the field of counter-terrorism in Australia in a way that is highly relevant to researchers and practitioners in many contexts where government departments and agencies, and the private sector, need to work together. Networks and National Security: Dynamics, Effectiveness and Organisation not only advances our knowledge of networks and national security but also assists with the essential tasks of evaluating and managing networks. Written in a clear and accessible style and featuring a wealth of first-hand accounts concerning the inside operations of networks, this book deals with the crucial subject of inter-agency coordination in the important field of national security.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961.