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About Linda Rosencrance
Linda
Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has
over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for
many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing
about information technology for the past 16 years.
She has
covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security
issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app
development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP,
and enterprise IT.
Rosencrance
is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.
A Beginner’s Guide to Cyber War, Cyber Terrorism and Cyber Espionage
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Tune in to just about any cable talk show or Sunday morning news program and you are likely to hear the terms “cyber war,” “cyber terrorism,” and “cyber espionage” bandied about in tones of grave solemnity, depicting some obscure but imminent danger that threatens our nation, our corporate enterprises, or even our own personal liberties. Stroll through the halls of a vendor expo at a security conference, and you will hear the same terms in the same tones, only here they are used to frighten you into believing your information is unsafe without the numerous products or services available for purchase.
The industry lacks a rubric of clear and standardized definitions of what constitutes cyber war, cyber terrorism, cyber espionage and cyber vandalism. Because of this, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for those of us in the profession to cut through the noise and truly understand risk. For example, on one hand, we have politicians and pundits declaring that the US is at cyber war with North Korea, and on the other hand President Obama declared the unprecedented Sony hack was vandalism. Who’s right?
The issue is exacerbated by the fact that such terms are often used interchangeably and without much regard to their real-world equivalents.
The objective of this article is to find and provide a common language to help security managers wade through the politicking and marketing hype and get to what really matters.
The state of the world always has been and always will be one of constant conflict, and technological progress has extended this contention from the physical realm into the network of interconnected telecommunications equipment known as cyberspace. If one thinks of private-sector firms, government institutions, the military, criminals, terrorists, vandals, and spies as actors, cyberspace is their theater of operations. Each of these actors may have varying goals, but they are all interwoven, operating within the same medium. What separates these actors and accounts for the different definitions in the “cyber” terms are their ideologies, objectives, and methods.
The best way to forge an understanding of the…