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The Fifth Domain

Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats

By Richard A. Clarke, Robert K. Knake

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The Pentagon calls cyberspace the fifth domain, and Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake set out how governments, companies and citizens can defend it. Their cases range from the Stuxnet attack that helped slow Iran's nuclear program to EternalBlue, the 2017 attack that shut hospitals in Britain and left shipping crates in Germany frozen in midair. The authors visit quantum-computing labs racing to build cyber weapons, the boardrooms of firms that were hacked and of the few that were not, and U.S. intelligence officials guarding elections from foreign interference. Their answer is cyber resilience: systems that withstand most attacks, and higher costs for cyber criminals and the autocrats who often stand behind them.

Bill Clinton endorsed its ideas for avoiding cyberwar and preventing cybercrime against companies, and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called it a strong wake-up call on a threat to national security.

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Bill Clinton (Former USA President)

In the battle raging between offense and defense in cyberspace, Clarke and Knake have some important ideas about how we can avoid cyberwar for our country, prevent cybercrime against our companies, and in doing so, reduce resentment, division, and instability at home and abroad.

Leon Panetta (Co-Founder/The Panetta Institute for Public Policy, Former Secretary of Defense, Director of CIA)

Cyberspace is the battlefield of the future. Our national security is dependent on whether we wake up and recognize the nature of this threat. In The Fifth Domain, Richard Clarke and Robert Knake are issuing a strong wake-up call. As they conclude, ‘what is missing is national consensus, will, and priority setting.’ If we fail to take the necessary steps to defend ourselves, we may lose not just the battle but the war.

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