Cyber-Threats, Information Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection

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Bibliographic Deets

 * Cordesman, Anthony 2002. Cyber-Threats, Information Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection: Defending the US Homeland. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut.

Content

 * Fear of "electronic Pearl Harbor" (2)


 * 1997 -> (CLINTON) President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection outlines (13):
 * 1) Cyber-Attack on Specific Server/Database
 * 2) Cyber-Attack for purpose of gaining access to a network
 * 3) Cyber-Attack for the purpose of Espionage
 * 4) Cyber-Attack for the Purpose of Shutting Down Service
 * 5) Cyber-Attack for purpose of introducing harmful instructions


 * Addresses "Hacktivism" (20)


 * "Most adversaries will recognize the information advantage and military superiority of the U.S. in 2015. Rather than acquiesce to any potential U.S. Military domination, they will try to circumvent or minimize U.S. strengths and expose perceived weaknesses. IT-driven globalization will significantly increase interaction among terrorists, narcotraffickers, weapons proliferators, and organized criminals who in a networked world have greater access to information, to technology, to finance, to sophisticated deception-and-denial techniques, and to each other. Such asymmetric approaches will become the dominant characteristic of most threats to the U.S. Homeland." (31).

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