In trying to answer a question that nobody has I’m working on an analysis of cyber warfare researchers and their particular influences and directions for what they are researching. Basically creating a grid with the “y” axis being social(ology) to…
Category: Cyber Conflict
State on State conflict using a variety of assets within and outside of cyberspace to create specific effects as a form of projection of power.
The collision of small wars and cyber wars is not a wikileaked Internet
What is cyber warfare? The term sent around the Internet like some kind of rhetorical catch all for computing abuse is nearing on useless. There are concepts that are inclusive of cyber warfare and what it likely means. If we…
Cyber Fugue
There is a desire by a constituency to promote solutions to problems that they are uniquely suited to solving. If asked about how to clean up air pollution a mechanic will likely tell you to tune up your car and…
Information theory: Is the light on or off
The following is a little thought experiment. It is not meant to answer any questions but to examine capabilities of cyber warfare from a metaphorical position (perhaps open). Using the principles of Schrodinger’s Cat (is the cat alive or dead)…
Cyber war myths: Other things nobody cares about
Cyber warfare is just like…. Pick your poison or bias. Heck pick strategic air warfare, pick some nuclear disarmament, get yourself some armor strategies. Talk about the Maginot line like it is actually a meaningful strategy in a networked world.…
The curious case of the Chinese Goooogling
When does the act of a nation state take on the specter of war? Consider if you will that at some point a transgression most assuredly has the emotional and physical manifestations of war. The Japanese attack against United States…
Cyber warfare: The academic community
The world of academia like any of the communities we have discussed is far from a cohesive mixture of opinions. The balance of the academic world is split between the large research universities, the regional public or private universities, and…
Cyber warfare: The corporate community
What does the corporate world bring to cyber warfare? I asked this question in a conference setting surrounded by military types and to stunned amazement listened to twenty minutes of how the corporate world has no place in cyber warfare.…
Cyber warfare: The intelligence community
It was a dark and stormy night. In the darkness so deep that hearts shrink from fear and apathy. The bright star of hope rose slowly and emblazoned on the star were the letters C-I-A. Oh, wait. That was swamp…
Cyber warfare: The military community
The military has been an active, interested, busy, and pretty much clueless newbie to the art and practice of cyber warfare. Recently I was told, “You don’t know what we don’t know behind the top secret doors of the Pentagon”.…
Cyber warfare: Communities
Cyber warfare means many different things to people. As a population of researchers and practitioners we have a tendency to bring our own biases to the processes of evaluating the domain. Whether we are part of the military, intelligence, corporate,…
South by South West (SXSW)
Here is my submission for South by South West! Help a guy out we need all the votes we can get. If you like the idea vote it up!
Cyber warfare: Call in the generals march out the peons
Recently it was brought to my attention that Raytheon was seeking Cyber Warriors in answer to Presidents Obama’s call for cyber security response and change. When you consider that the resulting legislation storm has left us with a host of…
Semper Cyber: A motto for a new military command
It looks like the Department of Defense (DOD) is going to create a cyber warfare command that may have a war fighting capacity. There are issues with creating a single command structure, there are issues with the military trying to…
A cyber warfare infrastructure: The high level architecture
How do you wage cyber warfare? How do you make a world wide reach? What does it look like? What can we count on for results? All of these questions are part of the process of designing and implementing a…