ABSTRACT
This book has dealt with the political processes that have favoured the rise of cyber-threats to prominence and, occasionally, to a top place on the security political agenda in the United States. It has explored a fairly ‘new’ security issue in terms of the threat perceptions of key actors and the dynamic interaction between actor constellations, systemic conditions, and institutional settings. Threat frames, specific interpretive schemata about what counts as threat or risk and how to respond to it, were at the heart of the investigation – and have revealed a lot about how security in the information age is defined and ultimately practiced.
