Introduction to Cyber-Warfare

Part I Cyber Attack

Information has become an important aspect in modern life. Banks, businesses, and media rely on a constant flow of information to operate. In a conflict, information is used to provide commanders situational awareness as well as to allow propaganda artists to provide their viewpoint on the conflict to the rest of the world. In a cyber attack, a combatant seeks to reduce the effect of information by taking computer systems offline, or at least somehow blocking access. A key example of this is when Russian hackers denied the Georgian media an outlet to the world as the Russian army invaded the Caucus state in 2008. Alternatively, when a combatant is able to weather a cyber attack and leverage information technology to broadcast ...