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Author: Jason Andress
ISBN : B0054IAIZA
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Cyber Warfare explores the battlefields, participants and the tools and techniques used during today's digital conflicts. The concepts discussed in this book will give those involved in information security at all levels a better idea of how cyber conflicts are carried out now, how they will change in the future and how to detect and defend against espionage, hacktivism, insider threats and non-state actors like organized criminals and terrorists. Every one of our systems is under attack from multiple vectors-our defenses must be ready all the time and our alert systems must detect the threats every time.
- Provides concrete examples and real-world guidance on how to identify and defend your network against malicious attacks
- Dives deeply into relevant technical and factual information from an insider's point of view
- Details the ethics, laws and consequences of cyber war and how computer criminal law may change as a result
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- Print Length: 320 pages
- Publisher: Syngress; 1 edition (July 13, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0054IAIZA
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Free Cyber Warfare: Techniques, Tactics and Tools for Security Practitioners
"Cyber Warfare: Techniques, Tactics and Tools for the Security Practitioners" is a consolidation of the current thinking around the topic of cyber warfare; not the way you hear about in the media where everything is a war of some kind (War on drugs, War on Terrorism, etc) but a discussion about what it means to conduct warfare via cyberspace. This is a tough topic because there are so many opinions about what Cyber Warfare is that you could literally spend an entire book just covering the definitions. The authors deftly avoid that trap and manage to provide a coherent line of thinking around Computer Network Operations even when these kinds of activities bump up against other cyber space dangers like Cyber Crime, Cyber Hactavism, Cyber Espionage and Cyber Terrorism. This is a primer; a one stop shop to get you up to speed on the topic if you are new to it or a refresher even if you have been enmeshed in it for years.
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The authors, Steve Winterfield and Jason Andress, cover everything you will want to consider when thinking about how to use cyberspace to conduct warfare operations. The primary concepts have been bouncing around US military circles for over a decade but they have never been collected into one tome before. Clarke and Knake's book, "Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do about It," discusses how weak the US network defenses are and offers suggestions about how to improve. Carr's book, "Inside Cyber Warfare: Maping the Cyber Underworld," presents threat examples and nation state capabilities. Libicki's book, "Cyberdeterrence and Cybrewar," attacks cyberwar from a policy viewpoint and does not really address operational considerations.
This book is possibly unique in its choice of scope, apparently targeted at operational-level military cyber warfare professionals (though also seemingly attempting to broaden its audience to mid-level private-sector information security professionals). Since this is basically the exact audience I was hoping to target as an instructor for a course in operational cyber war, I had high hopes for this book, hoping to replace an array of texts each covering a slice of the subject matter. It helped that the authors appeared to have solid credentials. All in all, I was somewhat disappointed with the book, mostly with the lack of polish, though it's probably still worthwhile if you're looking for a book with this particular scope.
"Cyber Warfare" addresses the nature of the various threats in cyberspace, covering various actors, motives, methods, vulnerabilities, and potential effects. It does a good job of staying at a fairly high level without over-simplifying to the point of gross inaccuracy, though it does fall victim to the temptation of sensationalizing once in awhile.
The book doesn't go too far into the weeds with specific tools, only offering a basic familiarization with the purpose and functionality of some of the more well-known (and sometimes outdated) examples. You occasionally get a sense of "hey, look at this cool gee-whiz tool" with some of their selections, but in general, it serves as a good survey of potential inclusions in a security toolkit.
Operations are structured along the lines of military doctrine, addressing Computer Network Attack, Defense, and Exploitation with their own chapters.
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