April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
744 pages
21h 41m
English
With the rash of cyberincidents that have taken a huge financial toll on governments and businesses over the last decade, legislators began to see that laws needed to be enacted to control the Wild West environment that existed in cyberspace. Laws have been enacted to protect privacy, infrastructure, people, companies, and just about anything that uses a computer or any form of computer technology. In this chapter, we discuss the most significant of those laws and how they affect corporate operations.
In 1996, when this law was passed, legislators were presented with some startling statistics. For example, the Computer Emergency and Response Team ...