Cyberwars – Bringing Military Lessons to Modern Information Security
We often think of war as hostilities between nation states or organized rogue entities, intended to pursue strategic interests and secure victory. Warfare itself has not changed, but the emergence of the digital world has added an extra layer to the nature of war. While nation states and subnational entities are still tussling for power and control in various spheres of interest, the digital world provides another medium for war, where victories, big and small, can be secured without a single bullet.
Unlike traditional warfare, in cyberwarfare players aren't limited to governments, terrorist groups, or other entities that have traditionally duked it out on the battlefield. The modern battlefield has been digitized, meaning that anyone, anywhere, can become a target of a concerted effort to compromise your cyber defenses. Threats can come from anywhere at any time, and often the bad actors are far...
