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- This book provides a comprehensive and detailed look at information warfare: computer crime, cybercrime, and information terrorism. It describes attacks on information systems through theft, deception, or sabotage, and demonstrates the countermeasures being mounted to defeat these threats. Focusing on the criminals and information terrorists whose depredations include information-based threats to nations, corporations, and individuals, Denning places cybercrime within a broader context, integrating the various kinds of information crime, and the countermeasures against it, into a methodology-based framework.
- Among the topics included are government use of information warfare for law enforcement investigations and for military and intelligence operations; also, the conflicts arising in the areas of free speech and encryption. The author discusses offensive information warfare, including acquisition of information, deceptive exploitation of information, and denial of access to information; and also addresses defensive information warfare, specifically, information security principles and practices. The book features coverage that is both broad and deep, illustrating cyberspace threats with real-world examples.
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What individuals, corporations, and governments need to know about information-related attacks and defenses!
Every day, we hear reports of hackers who have penetrated computer networks, vandalized Web pages, and accessed sensitive information. We hear how they have tampered with medical records, disrupted emergency 911 systems, and siphoned money from bank accounts. Could information terrorists, using nothing more than a personal computer, cause planes to crash, widespread power blackouts, or financial chaos? Such real and imaginary scenarios, and our defense against them, are the stuff of information warfare-operations that target or exploit information media to win some objective over an adversary.
Dorothy E. Denning, a pioneer in computer security, provides in this book a framework for understanding and dealing with information-based threats: computer break-ins, fraud, sabotage, espionage, piracy, identity theft, invasions of privacy, and electronic warfare. She describes these attacks with astonishing, real examples, as in her analysis of information warfare operations during the Gulf War. Then, offering sound advice for security practices and policies, she explains countermeasures that are both possible and necessary.
You will find in this book:
- A comprehensive and coherent treatment of offensive and defensive information warfare, identifying the key actors, targets, methods, technologies, outcomes, policies, and laws;
- A theory of information warfare that explains and integrates within a single framework operations involving diverse actors and media;
- An accurate picture of the threats, illuminated by actual incidents;
- A description of information warfare technologies and their limitations, particularly the limitations of defensive technologies.
Whatever your interest or role in the emerging field of information warfare, this book will give you the background you need to make informed judgments about potential threats and our defenses against them.
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Another classic from Dorothy Denning.
This book is informative, interesting, relevant, concise and packed full of goodies. Excellent book to read an ideal introduction to this subject, or a detailed source and reference for security professionals. Everyone will learn something from this book.
It balances the theories with some excellent real world examples whilst avoiding the temptation to be too technical, it is very readable. The reference material quoted in the book is detailed and provides a fantastic source for further reading.
Highly recommended for professionals and academics - I have used it in both context. A must for anyone involved in Information Security.
Certainly a good starting point for anyone starting to learn about IT Security or managers looking to get an overview.
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