Description: This book examines emerging technological risk in terms of a class of socio-technical hazards. It identifies and explains these hazards by means of different case studies.
Review Quotes:
A technically qualified specialist in reliability or security can appreciate the notion of risk as a tool to address the negative effects of technology use. Recently, this topic has become quite popular among various authors dealing with computing or networking issues ... There are also many books that deal in general with risk engineering... This book has a different perspective: Anderson and Felici present the problem at a very high level and thoroughly discuss in a qualitative way the various aspects of risk that can arise due to technological developments.
Piotr Cholda, Computing Reviews (www.computingreviews.com) 6th July 2012