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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

Applications add to insecurity

When one realizes the flaws that VPN technology introduces to the enterprise perimeter security model, one can see there are certainly issues with that approach. Adding to that issue, but also closely coupled with remote work and the BYOD movement for the workforce, is the issue of application security. Applications are what everyone, everywhere, on every device, uses to interact with and access the tools they need to do their jobs and conduct tasks in their daily lives. These applications are in many cases built with a focus on speed to production in mind, not security. That fact means that many of those applications that are used are basically built to be insecure.

According to a study jointly conducted by the Ponemon Institute and IBM, more than 50% of enterprises have 0% of their security budget aimed specifically at application security (Ponemon Institute, 2016). Over 40% of enterprises do not scan the code that runs their applications for...