Introduction to Cyber-Warfare

Preface

Since Stuxnet emerged in 2010, “cyber warfare” has truly entered into public discourse. But what is cyber war and what do we really know about it? Much has been written about the topic that has taken a solely information assurance perspective or a purely policy perspective. The former tends to focus on low-level technical details that are already described extensively in computer security books, whereas the latter emphasizes high-level policy decisions that most readers can do little to affect. All the while, details of the highly interesting cyber incidents are often overlooked. As a result of this omission, the current literature leaves a very basic question unanswered: “how have human beings conducted cyber-warfare”?

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