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Title: Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

Subtitle: What Everyone Needs to Know

Author: Allan Friedman, P. W. Singer

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 281 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

In Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know, New York Times best-selling author P. W. Singer and noted cyberexpert Allan Friedman team up to provide the kind of deeply informative resource book that has been missing on a crucial issue of 21st-century life. Written in a lively, accessible style, filled with engaging stories and illustrative anecdotes, the book is structured around the key question areas of cyberspace and its security: how it all works, why it all matters, and what we can do.

Along the way, they take listeners on a tour of the important (and entertaining) issues and characters of cybersecurity, from the Anonymous hacker group and the Stuxnet computer virus to the new cyberunits of the Chinese and US militaries. Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know is the definitive account of the subject for us all, which comes not a moment too soon.

Critic Reviews:

"The timely book brings thoughtful, witty, and balanced analysis to this very important emerging discussion." (

The Atlantic)

Members Reviews:

Let's hope there is not a sequel

This is my least enjoyable book from audible even including those I returned. The author seems lost interest in the subject early in the book feeling the pages with poorly connecting data to the main theme and he uses metaphors that are disjointed bringing added confusion rather than clarity.

By the time the end of the book the pages run on with filler as if to make a page quota. Add to this is a narrator whose sing song delivery is more fitting narrating a book on the joy of kite flying than what is supposed to be a serious subject.

This book is not the concise and crisp covering of the subject matter I hoped it would be.

For those that don't know, that they don't know!!

if you are someone inclined in computer networking technology and understanding this book is actually pretty good as a reinforcement but not solely for you. This book is definitely designed for those people who if almost every chapter there's a point where they bring up something that you don't know then this book is definitely for you

A job application for some government job?

What disappointed you about Cybersecurity and Cyberwar?

I started this book and was quickly disappointed with its lack of content. The first part gives the reader some random facts about the history of the internet and cybersecurity, some generic technical information and that was about it. I was not impressed but I kept going.

The second part of the book got me puzzled. How could the authors display such a poor understanding (or such a poor confidence) in the power of distributed architecture, open source software and basically everything that makes the Internet. I wouldnt say its perfect but its not Armageddon everyday either. At that stage I felt I was in a Bruce Willis movie Its a DDOS attack, well all gonna die. I went from being not impressed to feeling I was wasting my time but I kept going.

Then came the part where the authors make recommendations. In short, their solution is lots of government supervision, hire lots of people and spend lots of money. There is nothing in the book about how to manage risk. It is all about avoiding risk at all cost. There is no practical recommendations that organizations concerned with their bottom line can implement. Then I gave up.