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Age of Deception: Cybersecurity As Secret Statecraft (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Jon R. Lindsay.

Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft by John Lindsey

Jon holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. in computer science and B.S. in symbolic systems from Stanford University. He served in the US Navy with operational assignments in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Today Jon is an Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy at Georgia Tech. His research explores the role of emerging technology in global security.

I found this to be certainly one of the most insightful books on cybersecurity and a must read for anyone working in the fields of IT, AI, or IR. He reveals how cybersecurity has elevated to impact national security and international relations, resulting in secret statecraft. In fact, Jon introduces the statecraft of cybersecurity by revising Espionage (Bletchley Park), Sabotage (Stuxnet), Subversion (2016 US Election Interference), and Cyber Power (China).

He begins by updating the history of espionage at Bletchley Park. This will certainly be an amazing insight to many readers who only know the Turing story or the 2014 movie The Imitation Game, of the early efforts at Bletchley Park revealing the challenges the British faced in confronting Enigma.