CyberTerrorism
and Information Security
- NEW
- May 3, 2007 Hearing: "The Internet: A Portal
to Violent Islamist Extremism," U.S. Senate Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
- Witness Testimony
- Michael S. Doran [PDF]
, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Support
for Public Diplomacy , U.S. Department of Defense
- Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. Felter [PDF]
, Director, Combating
Terrorism Center, U.S. Military Academy
- Frank J. Cilluffo [PDF]
, Associate Vice President for Homeland Security, Director,
Homeland Security Policy Institute , The George Washington
University
- Committee Member Statements
- Senator Joseph I. Lieberman [PDF]
- Senator Susan M. Collins [PDF]
- Senator George V. Voinovich [PDF]
- Click
here for video of this hearing [Real Audio]
-
Publications
and Websites - General Information
- The
National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
- Al
Qaeda and the Internet: The Danger of “Cyberplanning,”
by Timothy Thomas
- Terror.net:
How Modern Terrorism Uses the Internet, by Gabriel Weimann
- Cybersecurity:
Getting it Right, by Daniel Wolf, U.S. National Security
Agency
- Sofaer,
Abraham, ed. The
Transnational Dimension of Cyber Crime and Terrorism.
Hoover Institution.
- Information
War - Cyberwar - Netwar, Chapter 6, Battlefield of
the Future, including discussion of propaganda and infopropaganda
- Cyberspace
Policy Institute at George Washington University
- SANS
Institute, SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security - works
with FBI to develop the Top 20 List of The Twenty Most Critical
Internet Security Vulnerabilities (Updated) ~ The Experts’
Consensus
- @stake,
a group of folks who test products for security holes, and
then publish advisories on same
- InfraGard
- a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) program to assist
the owners and operators of infrastructure with national
security.
- Cyberthreat:
Protecting U.S. Information Networks, U.S. Foreign Policy
Agenda, USIA Electronic Journal, Nov 1998
- Hacktivists
or Cyberterrorists? The Changing Media Discourse on Hacking,
by Sandor Vegh
- Hackers,
crackers, and Trojan horses: a Primer, on CNN interactive
- Bracing
for guerrilla war in cyberspace, on CNN interactive
-
Information
Assurance and Security
- InfoSec
News is a privately run, medium traffic list that caters
to the distribution of information security news articles.
The site includes list archives, list subscription information,
a RSS feed, and a bookstore.
- On
Guard Online (A Consumer Education Portal)
- An
Introduction to Legal Aspects of Operations
in Cyberspace, by Wingfield and Michael, 28 Apr 04,
Naval Postgraduate School
- Cyberthreat:
Protecting U.S. Information Networks, U.S. Foreign Policy
Agenda, USIA Electronic Journal, Nov 1998
- Symantec
AntiVirus Research Center
- In
Athena's Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information
Age, ed. by Arquilla and Ronfeldt, RAND
- CERT
Coordination Center, a federally funded center of Internet
security expertise
- Computer
Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC), - alerts on vulnerabilities
(very technical)
- Global
Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) founded by
the SANS Institute to validate the skills of security professionals
- National
Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), Dept. of Homeland
Security unit for information assurance and infrastructure
protection
- Office
of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness
(Canada)
- IC21:
The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century, staff
study for Congress
- C4I.org
- Computer Security & Intelligence - C4I.org is
a comprehensive intelligence and security portal offering
information for governments and corporations, it has also
been rated as an excellent resource of counterterrorism
resource by various worldwide military organizations.
- Center
for Education and Research in Information Assurance and
Security (CERIAS), Purdue University
- National
Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education,
"a society for advancing information assurance and infrastructure
protection"
- Computer
Security Laboratory, UC Davis
- Partnership
for Critical Information Security
-
Information
Operations and and Information Warfare
- Cyberwarfare,
Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report, 19 June 2001
- Institute
for the Advanced Study of Information Warfare
- Glossary
of Information Warfare Terms
- IWS
- The Information Warfare Site, "aims to stimulate debate
about a range of subjects from information security to information
operations and e-commerce. It is the aim of the site to
develop a special emphasis on Europe."
- Information
Warfare Sites and Links
- Legal
Constraints on Information Warfare, by Shulman,
- Information
Warfare and International Law, by Greenberg et al
- IW
Cyberlaw: The Legal Issues of Information Warfare, by
DiCenso
- The
International Legal Implications of Information Warfare,
by Aldrich
- Legal
and Practical Constraints on Information Warfare, by
Kuschner
- Information
Warfare Tutorial, 1998, originally from the Army War
College, incl. learning objectives for each module
- U.S.
Navy, Fleet Information Warfare Center
- Information
Warfare Academic Group, Naval Postgraduate School -
includes an IW Chair
- Information
Warfare Battlelab (Air Force Information Warfare Center)
- Network
Centric Warfare, from DoD CCRP
- The
Journal of Infrastructural Warfare
NOTE:
The course syllabus for IT460: Policies and Strategies
of Information Warfare, a course taught at the U.S. Military
Academy by Dr. James Forest, is avaiable upon request via
e-mail: james.forest@usma.edu
See
also:
to the Teaching
Terror home page
This
website developed and maintained by
Dr. James Forest, Director of Terrorism Studies at the U.S. Military
Academy.
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