Information Warfare

ISBN-13: 9780750649445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 226 str.

William Hutchinson; Bill Hutchinson; Matt Warren

Opis

An introduction of the concepts of information warfare from a non-military, organizational perspective. The authors seek to stimulate managers to develop policies, strategies and tactics for the aggressive use and defence of their data and knowledge base. They cover the full gambit of information warfare subjects from the direct attack on computer systems to the more subtle psychological technique of perception management.

Recenzje

Information professionals who advise their clients using information taken from the internet, or who train others to search the web, need to become more aware of the messages in this book.......a good chapter on techniques of deception shows the way that the authors of information can seek to misinform or deceive the reader. In the latter part of the book, a useful chapter on legal aspects of I-War is followed by one looking at the use of the web for political ends.....a remarkably strong feature of this book is its sheer readibility. The style is accessibile: the sentences are clear, and as concise as possible given the often technical nature of the content. Complex ideas are set out using bullet points rather than long, involved paragraphs. There are clear and appropriate diagrams and illustrations.
Information World Review

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Preface; How to use this book; Introduction; Concepts in information warfare; Information as an intelligence weapon; Deception; Sources of threat for IT systems; Attacks and retaliation; Attack and defence; An i-war risk analysis model; Implications of i-war for information managers; The legal perspective of i-war; Political activists, freedom fighters, and terrorists on the web; Perceptual intelligence and i-war; The future; Appendix 1: checklist for an information attack; Appendix 2: using the viable system model as a framework for an information attack; Appendix 3: checklist for deception; Appendix 4: retaliation against information attack: attitudes and practices of information systems managers; Discussion questions; Useful web sites; Glossary of terms; Bibliography.

O autorze

Bill Hutchinson, Mat Warren