Global Information Warfare: How Businesses, Governments, and Others Achieve Objectives and Attain Competitive Advantages

Published:
June 19, 2002 by Auerbach Publications - 688 Pages
Author(s):
Andy Jones, BT Group, United Kingdom; Gerald L. Kovacich, CISSP, CFE, CPP, Information Security Consultant, Coupeville; Perry G. Luzwick, Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Reston, Virginia, U

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Features

  • Provides a comprehensive and detailed look at global information warfare, where and how it is being waged by nation-states, groups, individuals, and businesses
  • Describes attacks on information systems through theft, netspionage, deception, or sabotage, and demonstrates countermeasures being mounted to defeat these threats
  • Places techno-terrorism within a broader context, integrating the various uses of high technology, and the countermeasures against it, into a methodology-based framework
  • Discusses government use of information warfare and the ensuing conflicts arising in the areas of free speech and encryption
  • Details offensive information warfare, including acquisition of information, deceptive exploitation of information, and denial of access to information; and also addresses defensive information warfare, as well as operating within the adversaries OODA loop

    • Summary

    Like no other book before it, Global Information Warfare illustrates the relationships and interdependencies of business and national objectives, of companies and countries, and of their dependence on advances in technology. This book sheds light on the "Achilles heel" that these dependencies on advanced computing and information technologies create. It underscores how hostile countries, business competitors, terrorists, hacktivists and others are waging Information Warfare (IW) against their adversaries. This may sound like science fiction, but it has been happening for years and continues to this day-anyone and everyone can be a target and a casualty.

    Table of Contents

    Foreword-by Kent Kresa, Chairman and CEO, Northrop Grumman Corporation

    HOW WE CAME TO WHERE WE ARE-AND BY THE WAY, WHERE ARE WE?
    Everything You Wanted to Know About Information Warfare, but Were Afraid to Ask
    Fuel for the InfoWar Fire: The High-Technology Revolution
    The Global and Nation-State Information Infrastructures: Backbone or Achilles' Heel?
    Our Changing World, or Is It Really?
    Business, Government, and Activist Warfare: The More Things Change, The More They Don't

    THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE USE OF INFORMATION WARFARE TACTICS BY BUSINESSES, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, AND ASSORTED MISCREANTS
    Information Warfare Tactics-How Can They Do That? It's the COTS, Stupid!
    It's All About Influence: Information Warfare Tactics by Nation-States
    Information Warfare: Asian Nation-States
    Information Warfare: Middle East Nation-States
    Information Warfare: European Nation-States
    Information Warfare: Nation-States of the Americas
    Information Warfare: African and Other Nation-States
    It's All About Profits: Information Warfare Tactics in Business
    It's All About Power: Information Warfare Tactics by Terrorists, Activists, and Miscreants

    INFORMATION WARFARE DEFENSES: COUNTERMEASURES, COUNTERATTACK, OR BOTH
    Surviving the Onslaughts: Defenses and Countermeasures
    Defending Against Information Warfare Attacks Begins with Knowledge Management
    What's a CEO to Do? Ya Gotta Have A Plan
    Those Who Do Not Accept Change and Adapt Will Be Consumed By It; The Enlightened Will Survive
    The 21st Century Challenge: Surviving in the New Century

    APPENDICES
    Recommended Reading and References
    Glossary of Terms
    A Short History of Technology and Its Relationship to Warfare
    Revolution in Information Affairs: Tactical and Strategic Implications of Information Warfare and Information Operations
    Afterword
    About the Authors
    Index

    Editorial Reviews

    Here is what the experts say about Global Information Warfare:

    -Kent Kresa, Chairman and CEO, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Los Angeles, California, USA

    "Information Warfare has many perspectives and this book serves as an excellent overview as well as stimulation for further thinking."
    -Manuel W. Wik, Chief Engineer, Strategic Specialist, Defense Materiel Administration (FMV) Stockholm, Sweden

    " This book provides readers with basic and new knowledge regarding Information Warfare, and enlightens readers to realize that Information Warfare has become more and more important to every country, society, military, and individual."
    -Ching-Chang Wu, Air Force Col., Chief Instructor, Air Command and Staff School, National Defense University, Republic of China

    "Awareness is the first and key step in finding proper solutions for any problem. …This book gives you exactly that, in a quick, complete yet comprehensive way: awareness!"
    -Predrag Pale, University of Zagreb, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology of Croatia 1993-2000, "Father" of Croatian Internet

    "Spurred on by the global war on terrorism it's inevitable that global information warfare will be waged, and therefore it's critical that we all be well informed… Read this book and learn!"
    -William Boni, Chief Information Security Officer, Motorola, USA

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