Information Warfare and Security

Information Warfare and Security

This is a comprehensive and detailed view of information warfare. It presents methods, laws, and case examples stressing actual incidents to illustrate such instances. 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.
Country USA
Brand Addison Wesley
Manufacturer AddisonWesley Professional
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrations
ReleaseDate 1998-12-20
UnitCount 1
UPCs 785342433036
EANs 9780201433036

Country	USA
Brand	Addison Wesley
Manufacturer	AddisonWesley Professional
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations
ReleaseDate	1998-12-20
UnitCount	1
UPCs	785342433036
EANs	9780201433036

Information Warfare and Security

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