Introduction to course. Elements of information warfare. Information infrastructures. Trends in information systems. Information warfare terms. Types of IW. Offensive and defensive IW.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 2, Computers Everywhere and the Global Network, pp. 71-86.
Elin Whitney-Smith, War, Information and History: Changing Paradigms, in Campen et al., pp. 53-69.
John Alger, Introduction to Information Warfare, 2nd. Edition, in Schwartau, pp. 8-14.
Winn Schwartau, Prologue to the Second Edition, pp. 16-22.
Winn Schwartau, An Introduction to Information Warfare, pp. 27-42.
Roger D. Thrasher, Information Warfare Delphi: Characteristics of Information Warfare, in Schwartau, pp. 579-587.
Martin C. Libicki, What is Information Warfare?, National Defense University, 1995.
Richard Szafranski, A Theory of Information Warfare. In Campen et al., pp. 231-242.
John Arquilla and David Ronfelt, Cyberwar is Coming!, 1993.
Douglas W. Washington, Onward Cyber Soldiers, Time Magazine, Aug. 21, 1995.
Reto E. Haeni, An Introduction to Information Warfare, George Washington University student paper.
CCT's Glossary of Terms for Net and Web Users
Alvin and Heidi Toffler, War and Anti-War: Survival at the Dawn of the 21st Century, Little, Brown and Company, 1993.
Randall Whitaker's Information Warfare site. - contains extensive glossary, bibliography, and guide to Internet resources
Actors and their motivation. Types of threats, including espionage, denial and degradation of service, destruction and modification of data, distortion and fabrication of information, physical attacks. Potential targets. Scope of problem.
Richard Power, Current and Future Danger: A CSI Primer on Computer Crime and Information Warfare.
David Icove et al., Ch. 1, Introduction to Computer Crime, pp. 1-27.
David Icove et al., Ch. 3, Who Commits Computer Crime, pp. 61-69.
Frederick B. Cohen, Summary of Views on IW in the IW Forum, in Schwartau, pp. 23-25.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 1, The Econo-Politics of Information Warfare, pp. 49-70.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 4, On the Nature of Insidious, pp. 131-143.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 11, Hackers: The First Information Warriors in Cyberspace, pp. 354-358.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 12, Who are the Information Warriors?, pp. 370-403.
Winn Schwartau, Cyber-Civil Disobedience, pp. 404-408.
GAO Report on security of Defense systems.
Annual Report to Congress, Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage 1996.
Industrial Espionage Victimizes Company.
Ben N. Venzke, Economic/Industrial Espionage.
James K. Campbell, Weapons of Mass Destruction in Terrorism, Oct. 1996.
Computer network attacks. Types of attacks, including packet sniffing, spoofing, viruses, password cracking, jamming, data diddling, social engineering. Methods and tools.
Dorothy E. Denning, Cyberspace Attacks and Countermeasures.
David Icove et al., Ch. 2, What are the Crimes?, pp. 29-60.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 5, Influenza, Malicious Software, and Oops!, pp. 148-166.
Peter V. Radattii, A Short Discussio on the Plausibility of UNIX Virus Attacks, in Schwartau, pp. 167-175.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 6, Sniffers and the Switch, pp. 175-197.
Henry M. Kluepfel, Countering Nonlethal Information Warfare: Lessons Learned on Foiling the Information Superhighwayman of the NOrth American Public Switched Telephone Network, in Schwartau, pp. 201-212.
Ronald S. Edward, Telewar: The Physical Vulnerabilities of a Global Electronic Economy, in Schwartau, pp. 212-220.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 7, The World of Mr. van Eck, pp. 221-231.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 9, Chipping: Silicon-Based Malicious Software, pp. 254-264.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 10, HERF Guns and EMP/T Bombs, pp. 269-296.
Ira Winkler, Diary of an Industrial Spy, in Schwartau, pp. 537-539.
Carlo Kopp, The E-Bomb - A Weapon of Electrical Mass Destruction, in Schwartau, pp. 296-333.
Social Engineering, in Schwartau, pp. 360-369.
Richard Behar, Who's Reading Your E-Mail?, Fortune, Feb. 3, 1997.
Examples of hacker sites
Single-key and public-key cryptography, key management, public-key certificates and infrastructure, digital signatures. Applications of cryptography. Limits of cryptography.
Dorothy E. Denning, Cyberspace Attacks and Countermeasures.
Dorothy E. Denning, Encryption Policy and Market Trends.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 8, Cryptography, pp. 231-243.
Technical safeguards, including authentication, access controls, and monitoring, firewalls, audit, intrusion detection, virus detection and elimination. Information security practices. Risk analysis and management. Emergency preparedness and response. Indications and warnings. Limits of security technology and practices.
Dorothy E. Denning, Cyberspace Attacks and Countermeasures.
David Icove et al., Part II, Preventing Computer Crime, pp. 87-153.
Dorothy E. Denning and Peter F. MacDoran, Grounding Cyberspace in the Physical World, in Campen et al., pp. 119-126.
Winn Schwartau, Denial of Service, pp. 265-268.
Winn Schwartau, Afterward: Practical Proactive Security and Privacy, pp. 671-687.
Information Warfare and Its Impacts on Commercial Enterprises by Markku J. Saarelainen
Investigating acts of computer crime and information warfare. Types of incidents reported and investigated. Methods of investigation and obstacles. Computer forensics; acquiring and handling computer evidence. Legal and jurisdictional issues. Scope of problem.
Speakers: Mr. Jim Christy, President's Infrastructure Protection Task Force and Air Force Office of Special Investigations; Mr. Byron Thompson, Special Agent, FBI; Michael Sussmann, Special Assistant, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
David Icove et al., Chapters 4: What are the Laws? , pp. 71-85.
David Icove et al., Part III: Handling Computer Crime, pp. 155-202
Industrial Espionage Act of 1996.
Robert Litt , Fighting Electronic Money Laundering Demands Multi-Pronged Strategy
IW and the media. Softwar and psyops. Perception management in cyberspace.
Speakers: Mr. Chuck de Caro, President and CEO, Aerobureau Corp.
James Adams, The Role of the Media, in Campen et al., pp. 108-118.
Chuck de Caro, Softwar, in Campen et al., pp. 203-218.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 3, Binary Schizophrenia, pp. 95-111.
Winn Schwartau, PsyOps, pp. 112-115.
Richard Szafranski, An Information Warfare SIIOP, in Schwartau, pp. 115-125.
Peruvian Guerrillas Wage Propaganda War On Internet
Hoaxes and scams - examples
Command and control warfare. Electronic warfare. Battlespace management. Evolution or revolution in military affairs.
Speaker: Commander Michael Loescher, United States Navy.
Michael L. Brown, The Revolution in Military Affairs: The Information Dimension, in Campen et al., pp. 31-52.
George J. Stein, Information Warfare, in Campen et al., pp. 175-183.
Daniel T. Kuehl, Strategic Information Warfare and Comprehensive Situational Awareness, in Campen et al., pp. 185-195.
Michael Loescher, The Information Warfare Campaign, in Campen et al., pp. 197-202.
Alan D. Campen, Rush to Information-Based Warfare Gambles with National Security, in Campen et al., pp. 227-230.
Alan D. Campen, Coming to Terms with Information War, in Campen et al., pp. 252-255.
Winn Schwartau, The Military Perspective, pp. 426-434.
Copernicus ... Forward C4I for the 21st Century, Unites States Navy, June 1995.
Intelligence, counter-intelligence, espionage, competive intelligence, industrial espionage, economic espionage. Smart organizations and nations.
Speakers: Vice Admiral J. M. McConnell, United States Navy (ret), Booze Allen & Hamilton, former Director, National Security Agency; Dr. Kenneth Allard, CEO, Competitive Strategies, Inc.
Robert D. Steele, Creating a Smart Nation: Information Strategy, Virtual Intelligence, and Information Warfare, in Campen et al., pp. 77-89.
Social and ethical implications of information warfare. Privacy. Spies and cops.
Speakers: Mr. Stewart Baker, Steptoe and Johnson; Ms. Christine MacNulty, President, Applied Futures Inc. (or April 28).
Winn Schwartau, Ethical Conundra of Information Warfare, in Campen et al., pp. 243-249.
Stewart A. Baker, Should Spies Be Cops?, in Schwartau, pp. 408-419.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 14, Class 1: Personal Information Warfare, pp. 473-485.
Elizabeth Weise, No Privacy, in Schwartau, pp. 486-494.
Beth Givens, Information Warfare: The Personal Front, in Schwartau, pp. 494-497.
Simon Savies, How to Beat Goliath: Why Strong Privacy Protection is the Best Defense Against Information Warfare, in Schwartau, pp. 497-501.
Dan Kuehl, The Ethics of Information Warfare and Statecraft.
Christine McNulty, Changing Values and Their Implications for the Ethics of Information Warfare.
National security policy. Information and infrastructure policy. Avoiding a digital Pearl Harbor. President's Commission of Critical Infrastructure Protection. Controlling access to and distribution of information.
Speakers: Captain Brent Greene, United States Navy (ret), President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection; Mr. Ryan Henry, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic & International Studies.
Alan D. Campen, Uncommon Means for the Common Defense, in Campen et al., pp. 71-75.
Martin C. Libicki, Protecting the United States in Cyberspace, in Campen et al., pp. 91-105.
Michael Loescher, New Approaches to DOD Information-Systems Acquisition, in Campen et al., pp. 127-132.
R. T. Goodden, Business Strategies in the Information Age, in Campen et al., pp. 133-145.
James Kerr, Information Assurance: Implications to National Security and Emergency Preparedness, in Campen et al., pp. 257-266.
Douglas H. Dearth and R. Thomas Goodden, Epilogue, in Campen et al., pp. 267-285.
Winn Schwartau, Electronic Civil Defense, pp. 43-48.
Charles Swett, Strategic Assessment: The Internet. Short version in Schwartau, pp. 87-94.
Martin C. Libicki, Deterring Information Attacks, in Schwartau, pp. 592-600.
John Rothrock, Information Warfare: Time for Some Constructive Criticism, in Schwartau, pp. 561-572.
Winn Schwartau, Export Control as a Proactive Defensive Information Warfare Mechanism, in Schwartau, pp. 572-578.
Philippe Baumard, From InfoWar to Knowledge Warfare: Preparing for the Paradigm Shift, in Schwartau, pp. 611-626.
Daniel J. Ryan and Julie J. C. H. Ryan, Protecting the National Information Infrastructure Against Warfare, in Schwartau, pp. 626-632.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 18, Outline of a National Information Policy: Defining America's Future, pp. 636-647.
Winn Schwartau: An Electronic Bill of Rights: In Cyberspace, You are Guilty Until Proven Innocent, pp. 648-655.
Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Information Warfare - Defense (IW-D), Nov. 1996 - Federal Computer Week summary
GAO Report on security of Defense systems.
Trends in organized crime and terrorism. Future conflicts and wars.
Speakers: Mr. John Petersen, President, Arlington Institute.
Douglas H. Dearth and Charles A. Williamson, Information Age/Information War, in Campen et al., pp. 14-29.
John Petersen, Information Warfare: The Future, in Campen et. al., pp. 219-226.
Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., Sometimes the Dragon Wins. In Schwartau, pp. 436-453.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 15, Class 2: Corporate Information Warfare, pp. 513-532.
Winn Schwartau, Corporate Civil Defense: Defensive Class II Information Warfare, pp. 533-537.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 16, Class 3: Global Information Warfare, pp. 540-560.
Winn Schwartau, Ch. 19: The Future of Information Warfare, pp. 658-670.
Matthew G. Devost, Political Aspects of Class III Information Warfare: Global Conflict and Terrorism
Fred Fuller, New Order Threat Analysis: A Literature Survey.
Emmett Paige Jr., Electromagnetic Spectrum: Key to Success in Future Conflicts, Nov. 1996.