Book Club: The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age

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The Perfect Weapon explores the quandary of how to use and defend against cyber-attacks. Author David E. Sanger describes the perfection of cyber weapons as their almost limitless ability to steal money, pilfer secrets, sabotage critical infrastructure, undermine democracies, and tear societies apart at the seams. Cyber weapons are available to large and small powers, democracies and dictators and they have altered the geopolitical landscape forever.

The author takes on the difficult policy questions that address how nations can effectively respond to, deter, and defend against cyber attacks that modern information technology and its destructive potential have spawned. This book is sourced almost exclusively from the author’s firsthand interactions with world leaders, cyber experts, technology CEOs, and security leaders around the world.

About the Author

David E. Sanger is a White House and national security correspondent and senior writer for the New York Times. In his 38-year reporting career, he has been on three Pulitzer Prize winning teams and won numerous awards for his individual reporting on national and international security issues.

A 1982 graduate of Harvard College, Sanger teaches national security policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and is a regular contributor to CNN. He is also bestselling author of The Inheritance and Confront and Conceal. His reporting has resulted in a documentary on “Nuclear Jihad,” for Discovery/Times Television, and on the “Perfect Weapon” for HBO.