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CYBERSECURITY
Protecting Critical Infrastructures from Cyber Attack and Cyber Warfare
The World Economic Forum regards the threat of cyber attack as one of the top fve global risks
confronting nations of the world today. Cyber attacks are increasingly targeting the core functions of
the economies in nations throughout the world. The threat to attack critical infrastructures, disrupt
critical services, and induce a wide range of damage is becoming more diffcult to defend against.
This book examines the current cyber threat landscape and discusses the strategies being used by
governments and corporations to protect against these threats. CYBERSECURITY
The book frst provides a historical reference, detailing the emergence of viruses, worms, malware,
and other cyber threats that created the need for the cybersecurity feld. It then discusses the P r o t e c t i n g C r i t i c a l I n f r a s t r u c t u r e s
vulnerabilities of our critical infrastructures, the broad arsenal of cyber attack tools, and the various
engineering design issues involved in protecting our infrastructures. It goes on to cover cyber f r o m C y b e r A t t a c k a n d C y b e r W a r f a r e
intelligence tactics, recent examples of cyber confict and warfare, and the key issues in formulating
a national strategy to defend against cyber warfare.
The book also discusses how to assess and measure the cost of cybersecurity. It examines the
many associated cost factors and presents the results of several important industry-based economic
studies of security breaches that have occurred within many nations. The book concludes with a look
at future trends in cybersecurity. It discusses the potential impact of industry-wide transformational
changes, such as virtualization, social media, cloud computing, structured and unstructured data, big
data, and data analytics.
Features:
• Examines the threat spectrum of cyberspace attacks and cyber weapons
• Defnes the arsenal of cyber tools and new sophisticated attacks
• Discusses the need for an architecture of cloud computing for cyber and counter intelligence
• Emphasizes the Department of Defense’s role and the expansion of new mission forces to
battle in cyberspace
• Covers the US and international legal aspects of cybersecurity
• Describes the diffculty of calculating the costs of defending against cyber attacks
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Protecting Critical Infrastructures
from Cyber Attack and Cyber Warfare
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SECURITY
Protecting Critical Infrastructures
from Cyber Attack and Cyber Warfare
Edited by
Thomas A. Johnson
Webster University
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Editor xiii
Contributors xv
1 Historical Reference Points in the Computer
Industry and Emerging Challenges in Cybersecurity 1
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2 Critical Infrastructures, Key Assets:
A Target- Rich Environment 33
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3 Protection and Engineering Design Issues in
Critical Infrastructures 67
FRED COHEN
4 Cyber Intelligence, Cyber Conficts, and
Cyber Warfare 155
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5 Cybersecurity: A Primer of U.S. and
International Legal Aspects 199
JULIE LOWRIE
6 Economic Cost of Cybersecurity 255
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7 Cybersecurity Threat Landscape and Future
Trends 287
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