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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

Kill the password, limit the pain

Diving deeper into the area around the FIDO alliance, and the efforts there to help defend devices and eliminate the threats that passwords introduce, it is imperative that one understands some of the concepts that are so key to this effort to eliminate the password for users and their devices. Often, two-factor authentication (2FA) as it is known is cited as the most powerful form of out-of-band authentication that can help eliminate password issues. While 2FA is a very useful solution and should be employed at large for all systems, it is not beyond compromise.

2FA helps add an additional point of authentication and splits the authentication protocol (password and authentication) between different systems and devices, but it's far from perfect; in the end, it really only means attackers have to crack two codes instead of one. And should an attacker phish a target with a focus on intersecting the 2FA process, it is possible...