Information Warfare / Edition 1

by Edward Waltz

Overview

Here's a systems engineering-level introduction to the growing field of Information Warfare (IW) — the battlefield where information is both target and weapon. This comprehensive book provides engineers, system operators, and information technology users with an understandable overview of rapidly emerging threats to commercial, civil, and military information systems — and shows how these threats can be identified and systems protected.

Authored by a leading expert in advanced information-based technologies, this is the first book to detail the component principles, technologies, and tactics critical to success in the three key areas of IW: Information Dominance, Information Defense, and Information Offense. The author explains the quantification of information, describes the deductive, inductive and abductive processes that create knowledge, and provides essential technical background on:

• The knowledge creation processes of data fusion and data mining

• Information security technologies, including: encryption, authentication, authorization, and attack detection

• Information attack technologies, including: physical, infrastructure, and perceptual methods

Adding to the book's value are extensive citations to relevant unclassified literature, numerous examples of practical defense-related systems, clear explanations of basic IW theory, and much deeper and broader coverage of security issues than found in typical Internet security books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780890065112
Publisher:	Artech House, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/31/1998
Series:	Artech House Computer Science Library Series
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Edward Waltz is responsible for the development of information science and technology programs at ERIM International, including information understanding (data fusion, data mining and information visualization) and information warfare activities. He oversees the development of new technology applications in intelligence, military and emerging commercial markets. He is co-author of Multisensor Data Fusion, also published by Artech House.

Table of Contents

Contents: Principles of IW. Role of Information Science and Technology in War. The Role of Technology in Information Based Warfare. Achieving Information Superiority. Information Warfare Policy, Strategy and Operations. Elements of Information Operations. Operational Concept for Info OPS. Offensive Info OPS. Defensive Info OPS. IW Technologies.

Editorial Reviews

Presents the author's conception of the use of information in warfare, based on seminars that he has presented in the US and Europe since 1995. Topics include the role of technology in information-based warfare, information superiority through dominant battlespace awareness and knowledge, information warfare policy, the weapons of information warfare, cryptographic encryption measures, and physical-level system security. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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