Information Warfare : Principles and Operations

Here's a systems engineering-level introduction to the growing field of Information Warfare (IW). It provides a clear overview of rapidly emerging threats to commercial, civil, and military information systems, and shows how these threats can be identified and how the systems can be protected. Authored by a leading expert in advanced information-based technologies, this is the first book to detail the component principles, technologies, and tactics critical to success in the three key areas of IW: Information Dominance, Information Defense, and Information Offense. The author explains the quantification of information, describes the deductive, inductive and abductive processes that create knowledge, and provides essential technical background on data fusion and data mining, information security technologies (including encryption, authentication, authorization, and attack detection), and information attack technologies (including physical, infrastructure, and perceptual methods).