Chapter 1

Cyber Warfare

Here and Now

Outline

Information in this Chapter

• What is Cyber Warfare?

• The growing importance of cyber warfare

• Attribution in cyber war

• Basic topics in information assurance

What is Cyber Warfare? Is it a credible threat? How should we study it? Before we start to present some case studies, we felt these questions need to be addressed first. Granted, our answers to these questions are only tentative: cyber warfare is and will be evolving. In this chapter, we attempt to define cyber war, discuss why it is important, and outline some techniques that can help us study it. ...

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