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The February 2010 edition of the Information Operations Institute’s publication, the IO Journal, has great articles dealing with cyberspace and information operations.
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The journal has great articles. The three below are directly related to cyberspace.
The Emerging Battlespace of Cyberwar: The Legal Framework and Policy Issues, by James P. Farwell: This paper describes key aspects of the overall framework of legal authorities that govern strategies and options, and key policy issues for this new battle space. The key authorities that dictate what DoD may do are framed by Congressional authorization and the National Command Authority, a term that refers to the ultimate lawful source of military orders. In the United States, it refers collectively to the President and the Secretary of Defense.
Applying Deterrence in Cyberspace, by Kevin R. Beeker, Robert F. Mills, Michael R. Grimaila: First we introduce a common framework used for deterrence strategy in all domains and discuss how this framework can be applied to cyberspace. We then discuss how the very nature of cyberspace confounds traditional approaches to deterrence based on a “detect and preempt” strategy and advocate for a strategy based on “fight through.” Finally, we discuss how attribution, identity management, and moderating trust relationships may have significant roles in building an effective deterrence strategy.
Information Security within DoD Supply Chains, by Brian R. Salmans: The threats faced by the DOD and its partners within their mutual supply chains are many, varied, and continually evolving. They include the accidental loss of data, malicious users, hackers, terrorists, foreign intelligence collection, targeted information warfare attacks, malicious code such as viruses or worms, and denial of service attacks.