Titre : | Information Warfare and Critical Infrastructure : The Combined Power of Information Warfare Threats (2022) |
Type de document : | Article : Articles |
Dans : | Journal of Information Warfare (21-4, Fall 2022) |
Article en page(s) : | 12p. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Catégories : |
5.05 Sciences de l'information > Informatique > Cyberespace 6.20 Relations internationales > Sûreté de l'État > Sécurité nationale > Cyberdéfense |
Tags : | Critical Infrastructure ; Information Warfare ; Cyber Warfare ; Electronic Warfare ; Information Environment |
Résumé : |
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. |