Chapter 17
Cyber Warfare and Terrorism
Chapter Objectives
After reading this chapter and completing the exercises, you will be able to do the following:
Defend against computer-based espionage.
Employ defenses against computer-based terrorism.
Choose appropriate defense strategies for your network.
Employ defenses against information warfare.
Introduction
To this point, we have covered a wide variety of threats to computer networks, but these threats have primarily been carried out by lone perpetrators, including virus infections that spread randomly via e-mail and the Internet. Because computer systems and networks are such an integral part of all types of organizations, it is only natural that they have become a primary target for espionage ...
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