Information Warfare and Critical Infrastructure: The Combined Power of Information Warfare Threats
Abstract:
Critical Infrastructure (CI) is an area that has historically been rife with vulnerabilities, open to foreign and domestic threats. Recent events such as the Colonial Pipeline and JBS Foods provider ransomware attacks highlight the need for better security and resiliency from cyber threats. However, within the Information Warfare (IW) constructs that have become increasingly refined by peer adversaries like China and Russia, the areas of Electromagnetic Warfare (EW), Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), and Information Operations (IO) have become equally important to consider in the panoply of IW. This raises the important question regarding whether CI assets are adequately protected from the full complement of IW threats. Each IW area will be discussed from a threat perspective and examples will be presented to show how these threats can be combined to disrupt, deny, and destroy CI and CI assets with special attention given to peer and non-peer adversaries and the asymmetric advantages of each.
AUTHORS
Air University, Air Force Cyber College
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
Dr. Joshua Alton Sipper is a Professor of Cyberwarfare Studies at the Air Force Cyber College. He completed his doctoral work at Trident University in September of 2012, earning a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership (with an emphasis on e-Learning Leadership). Dr Sipper’s research interests include cyber ISR, policy, strategy, and warfare.
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Journal of Information Warfare
The definitive publication for the best and latest research and analysis on information warfare, information operations, and cyber crime. Available in traditional hard copy or online.
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