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Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies

By : Dr. Chase Cunningham
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Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies

By: Dr. Chase Cunningham

Overview of this book

The era of cyber warfare is now upon us. What we do now and how we determine what we will do in the future is the difference between whether our businesses live or die and whether our digital self survives the digital battlefield. Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies takes you on a journey through the myriad of cyber attacks and threats that are present in a world powered by AI, big data, autonomous vehicles, drones video, and social media. Dr. Chase Cunningham uses his military background to provide you with a unique perspective on cyber security and warfare. Moving away from a reactive stance to one that is forward-looking, he aims to prepare people and organizations to better defend themselves in a world where there are no borders or perimeters. He demonstrates how the cyber landscape is growing infinitely more complex and is continuously evolving at the speed of light. The book not only covers cyber warfare, but it also looks at the political, cultural, and geographical influences that pertain to these attack methods and helps you understand the motivation and impacts that are likely in each scenario. Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies is as real-life and up-to-date as cyber can possibly be, with examples of actual attacks and defense techniques, tools. and strategies presented for you to learn how to think about defending your own systems and data.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index
Appendix – Major Cyber Incidents Throughout 2019

Survivability in Cyber Warfare and Potential Impacts for Failure

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

General George S Patton

War is just that: war. Be it a "legacy" engagement on the front lines of some foreign chunk of soil, or be it on some digital piece of infrastructure, it is no less daunting and no less ugly. The battleground we find ourselves on today is one that is transitory in nature, ethereal in its definition, and dynamic at its core. Every man, woman, child, device, application, and anything else on the planet that is online and sending or receiving an electron is literally transiting a live fire battlefield. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, this combat zone never stops, and never takes a moment's rest. The only way to survive in a space that is this fraught with danger is to have a solid strategic approach and to abide by a list of practices that translate equally...