TRELEW, Argentina, Sept. 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — European, Latin American and Russian Federation governments are seeking new ways to help prevent foreign mass surveillance and espionage, particularly in wake of the recent revelations by Edward Snowden in the NSA Spying Scandal. A recently released internet planning and security guide which has been offered free of charge to the European, Russian and Latin American corporate community by SPACEPOL Academic Publishers has cast a critical light on the use of US and British websites, standards and technologies.
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"It's not about punishing the US, the UK and other Five Eyes countries for what could be considered a violation of ally trust," says the guide's author Gunnar K. A. Njalsson, who is an expert and keynote speaker on the subjects of Technology Management and Comparative National Innovation Policy.
"It's about reminding technology planners and users of the fact that their data assets pass through numerous networks under various legal jurisdictions and the guide is a frank reminder that opportunities for surveillance, spying and corporate espionage can be increased or reduced depending upon how they plan those connections and what technologies or standards they employ," Njalsson adds. The author of Gunnar's Basic Internet Security Guide, which made its debut on the internet and in digital libraries this year, is concerned with the seeming lack of "healthy paranoia" found among government and corporate technology managers. Njalsson consults government and corporations regularly and has dedicated the guide to covering only a few of the worst vulnerabilities he has encountered among technology management clients.
Gunnar's Basic Internet Security Guide goes against the current global trend by discouraging the use of cloud computing for any potentially private or sensitive data.
One of the most controversial recommendations in Gunnar's Basic Internet Security Guide is the advice to European, Latin American and Russian government to prefer an X.400 or similar alternative messaging system over regular internet e-mail. Another piece of advice which the western Internet community might likely cringe in horror at is Njalsson's recommendation to forbid employees from using the Internet for all but the most essential tasks. His suggestions for blocking social media and entertainment services by default in government and corporation workplaces have already met with resistance, even in Russia and Uruguay.
"There are very valid and crucial reasons for these suggestions which are presented in the guide. There is also the productivity factor, including how little we have investigated whether excessive Internet use and gaming may in fact be contributing to new problems such as apathy and missing social skills which normally are built up by meeting and cooperating in person. In fact, widespread and excessive Internet use may even be hurting the world economy," Gunnar Njalsson warns.
Gunnar's Basic Internet Security Guide can be accessed at the SPACEPOL Government Policy Consulting website:
http://spacepol.aero/consultants/guias-guides/default.asp
Previous academic books released by SPACEPOL Academic Publishers can be viewed at:
http://spacepol.aero/2.16.124.113626.15.0/SPCO-W053-2/publishers/corporatebooks.html
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