Information Warfare and SecurityWhat individuals, corporations, and governments need to know about information-related attacks and defenses! Every day, we hear reports of hackers who have penetrated computer networks, vandalized Web pages, and accessed sensitive information. We hear how they have tampered with medical records, disrupted emergency 911 systems, and siphoned money from bank accounts. Could information terrorists, using nothing more than a personal computer, cause planes to crash, widespread power blackouts, or financial chaos? Such real and imaginary scenarios, and our defense against them, are the stuff of information warfare-operations that target or exploit information media to win some objective over an adversary. Dorothy E. Denning, a pioneer in computer security, provides in this book a framework for understanding and dealing with information-based threats: computer break-ins, fraud, sabotage, espionage, piracy, identity theft, invasions of privacy, and electronic warfare. She describes these attacks with astonishing, real examples, as in her analysis of information warfare operations during the Gulf War. Then, offering sound advice for security practices and policies, she explains countermeasures that are both possible and necessary. You will find in this book:
Whatever your interest or role in the emerging field of information warfare, this book will give you the background you need to make informed judgments about potential threats and our defenses against them. 0201433036B04062001 |
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... operations and technologies may fall in more than one area . Defensive information warfare is closely related to information security . They are not , however , identical . Information security is concerned mainly with owned resources ...
... Defensive information warfare must take into account these multiple threats . The Defense Defensive information warfare is practiced by everyone , from individuals to or- ganizations to governments . At the individual level , defenses serve ...
... information warfare , is waged against industries , political spheres of influence , global economic forces , and entire countries.5 DEFENSIVE INFORMATION WARFARE Defensive information warfare aims to protect information resources from ...
Contents
GULF WARINFOWAR | 3 |
A THEORY OF INFORMATION WARFARE | 21 |
PLAYGROUNDS TO BATTLEGROUNDS | 43 |
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