Global Information Warfare

Andy Jones has more than 40 years of military, government, business, and academic experience in the areas of intelligence, security, and digital forensics, both in the United Kingdom and overseas. He has been a practitioner for the whole period and a researcher in these areas for more than 20 years. He is currently an academic, international consultant, lecturer, and writer and is involved in research with a number of universities in the United Kingdom and Australia.Gerald L. Kovacich has over 45 years of experience in industrial, business, and government security, investigations, intelligence/counterintelligence, source handling, information systems security, and information warfare, both in the US government as a special agent and in international corporations and subsequently as an international consultant and lecturer. He retired from his position as the information warfare technologist at Northrop Grumman Corporation to pursue a career as an international consultant, lecturer, and writer.

• Introduction to Global Information Warfare. From Information Warfare to Information Operations and Cyber Warfare. War Stories from the Digital Battlefield. Pre 9/11. Effect of 9/11 and US Homeland Security (DHS). Nation-State Defensive and Offensive Information Warfare Capabilities: North America. Nation-State Defensive and Offensive Information Warfare Capabilities: Middle East Nation-States. Nation-State Defensive and Offensive Information Warfare Capabilities: Asia Pacific Region. Nation-State Defensive and Offensive Information Warfare Capabilities: Europe. Nation-State Defensive and Offensive Information Warfare Capabilities: The Russian Federation. International Organizations’ Defensive and Offensive Information Warfare Capabilities. Nonstate Actors. The History of Technology. Corporate and National Resilience. Awareness. The Tallinn Manual. A Look at the Future: The Crystal Ball. Appendix.

"…highlights both the reality and the awesomeness of global information warfare."—William G. E. Millar, Global CISO Infrastructure Services Capgemini, from the Foreword"Global Information Warfare is a significant reality for governments, their citizens and corporations. This edition provides marvelously readable information about the new digital battlefield and serves as an invaluable reference. It sets out for all generations exactly why global information warfare matters now and why it is increasingly critical in the future."—William G.E. Millar, Global CISO Infrastructure Services CapgeminiPraise from the first edition:"Information warfare has many perspectives and this book serves as an excellent overview as well as stimulation for further thinking."—Manuel W. Wik, Chief Engineer, Strategic Specialist, Defense Materiel Administration (FMV), Stockholm, Sweden"This book provides readers with basic and new knowledge regarding information warfare, and enlightens readers to realize that information warfare has become more and more important to every country, society, military, and individual." —Ching-Chang Wu, Air Force Colonel, Chief Instructor, Air Command and Staff School, National Defense University, China"Awareness is the first and key step in finding proper solutions for any problem. …This book gives you exactly that, in a quick, complete yet comprehensive way: awareness!"—Predrag Pale, University of Zagreb, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology of Croatia 1993-2000, "Father" of Croatian Internet"Spurred on by the global war on terrorism it's inevitable that global information warfare will be waged, and therefore it's critical that we all be well informed. Read this book and learn!" —William Boni, Chief Information Security Officer, Motorola, USA