The Social Construction of Internet Routing
The Internet is not a single network, but rather a global system of thousands of interconnected computer networks. In many ways, the interconnections between computer networks – termed the inter-domain routing system – is the most critical component of Internet infrastructure: in the absence of these interconnections, there would be no Internet. In this project, I sought to find out how and why the inter-domain routing system is maintained as a stable, reliable component of Internet infrastructure; and what happens when it fails. Read more…
The Production of Information Security Professionals
There is a global shortfall in the number of qualified information security professionals required to fill critical security roles in governments, industry, and society. Numerous information security education programs have been developed to address this shortfall; however, the practice of information security requires more than just skills that can be learned in a classroom. In this project, I am studying how the everyday practices of information security professionals depend upon coordination and collaboration with their peers, enabled by relationships of trust that cut across corporate and state boundaries. Read more…