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…
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How to wage cyber warfare: Concluding remarks, Part 10
With this ten part series I wanted to get some ideas down and hopefully start some discussion. Over the last few weeks each segment has looked at cyber warfare from a different viewpoint. I’ve been told that my blog posts…
How to wage cyber warfare: Why we do not take cyber seriously, Part 9
There are a lot of arguments over why cyber warfare and cyber terrorism get so little attention. The attention it gets arrives in waves and departs. There is almost a decade swing between being ignored and being the hottest new…
How to wage cyber warfare: The super empowered individual, Part 8
The nation state as an entity is a conglomeration of power and social structure having a history stretching back to the Westphalian peace and treaty. This concept of nations rises out of western tradition that had recognized empires previously but…
How to wage cyber warfare: The relationship between cyber and kinetics, Part 7
There is a certain amount of misunderstanding about the Internet and the global communications grid. On the one hand we have a mythos that has risen stating that the Internet was created to allow communication in the advent of nuclear…
How to wage cyber warfare: Operationalizing the network, Part 6
So, first thing is what do we mean by operationalize? This is a big word for the principle of taking over the adversaries systems. As a key factor to conflict the desired state is to control the ability of the…
How to wage cyber warfare: Reconnaissance and surveillance, Part 5
Reconnaissance is often considered synonymous with footprinting of systems. The idea is to get as much knowledge about the target network as possible. One way of doing that is simple observation. One lesson we can take from the military at…
How to wage cyber warfare: The technology and structure, Part 4
There are some basic components that are needed by any military so that they can succeed. The military force is required to have the appropriate technology to create an advantage and the training to overcome any adversaries corresponding advantage. The…
How to wage cyber warfare: Puzzle pieces, Part 3
Cyber warfare claimed by many is done by none. Most of the stuff identified as cyber warfare and security we see is actually defensive in nature. If we actually secured our computing systems a lot of the risks of damage…
How to wage cyber warfare: Barriers to entry, Part 2
There are large numbers of people who are all for the new thing called cyber warfare. Whether you are interested in waging cyber warfare for a nation state or are considering a corporate company on company engagement the realities are…
How to wage cyber warfare: A primer, Part 1
Cyber warfare is fought on a cyber space terrain. The terrain is made up of the communication components of the global spanning information grid. Consider all of the interconnected equipment, components, people, processes, procedures, and other elements that allow for…