Global Information Warfare: The New Digital Battlefield, 2nd Edition

Since the turn of the century much has happened in politics, governments, spying, technology, global business, mobile communications, and global competition on national and corporate levels. These sweeping changes have nearly annihilated privacy anywhere in the world and have also affected how global information warfare is waged and what must be done to counter its attacks.

In light of increased attacks since 2002, Global Information Warfare: The New Digital Battlefield, Second Edition provides a critical update on the nature and approaches to global information warfare. It focuses on threats, vulnerabilities, attacks, and defenses from the perspectives of various players such as governments, corporations, terrorists, and private citizens.

Upgrades to the Second Edition Include:

• Revised discussions of changes and impacts of global information warfare since 2002
• Updated analyses of the capabilities of several nation-states as well as nonstate actors
• A comprehensive list of incidents that have occurred in the past year to show the scope of the problem of GIW
• Discussions of post-9/11 governmental changes and shifting priorities with clearer hindsight than was possible in the first edition

The book underscores how hostile countries, business competitors, terrorists, and others are waging information warfare against adversaries, even from across the globe. It describes attacks on information systems through theft, Internet espionage, deception, and sabotage, and illustrates countermeasures used to defeat these threats.

The second edition of Global Information Warfare contains a wealth of information and detailed analyses of capabilities of contemporary information technology and the capabilities of the individuals and groups who employ it in their respective digital wars. It is a crucial source for gaining the best understanding of the current state of information warfare and the most effective ways to counter it.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to Global Information Warfare
Chapter 2: From Information Warfare to Information Operations and Cyber Warfare
Chapter 3: War Stories from the Digital Battlefield
Chapter 4: Pre 9/11
Chapter 5: Effect of 9/11 and US Homeland Security (DHS)
Chapter 6: Nation-State Defensive and Offensive Information Warfare Capabilities: North America
Chapter 7: Nation-State Defensive and Offensive Information Warfare Capabilities: Middle East Nation-States
Chapter 8: Nation-State Defensive and Offensive Information Warfare Capabilities: Asia Pacific Region
Chapter 9: Nation-State Defensive and Offensive Information Warfare Capabilities: Europe
Chapter 10: Nation-State Defensive and Offensive Information Warfare Capabilities: The Russian Federation
Chapter 11: International Organizations’ Defensive and Offensive Information Warfare Capabilities
Chapter 12: Nonstate Actors
Chapter 13: The History of Technology
Chapter 14: Corporate and National Resilience
Chapter 15: Awareness
Chapter 16: The Tallinn Manual
Chapter 17: A Look at the Future: The Crystal Ball
Appendix: A Short History of Technology and Its Relationship to Warfare