Cyber Risk, 9781529256024
Hardcover
Our digital world is vulnerable: Politics, policy, and everyday life at risk.
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Cyber Risk

Managing Uncertainty in a Digital World

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  • Hardcover

    176 pages

  • Release Date

    21 April 2026

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Summary

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

What does it mean to live in a world where our most essential systems are digital-and vulnerable?

This book takes readers beyond the technical aspects of cybersecurity to explore how the management of digital risk shapes politics, policy and everyday life. Drawing on case studies from corporate boardrooms to international affairs, it reveals the social and political logics driving the fast-growing cyber risk industry.<…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529256024
ISBN-10:152925602X
Author:Tim Stevens
Publisher:Bristol University Press
Imprint:Bristol University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:176
Release Date:21 April 2026
Weight:0g
Dimensions:203mm x 127mm
Series:Research in Sociotechnical Cyber Security
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Critics Review

‘This long-overdue look at cyber risk as socially constructed and not just technical opens new avenues for policy innovation and digital resilience.’ Debi Ashenden, University of New South Wales‘If cyber risk is what politics - writ large - make of it, Tim Stevens is your guide to how that process unfolds, what the policy consequences are, and how to evaluate the ever moving, socially constructed target of cyber risk and its governmentality.’ Dennis Broeders, Leiden University

About The Author

Tim Stevens

Tim Stevens is Reader in International Security at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and Co-Director of the KCL Cyber Security Research Group.

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