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Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies

You're reading from   Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies Strategic concepts and truths to help you and your organization survive on the battleground of cyber warfare

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839216992
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Chase Cunningham Dr. Chase Cunningham
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Brief History of Cyber Threats and the Emergence of the APT Designator 2. The Perimeter Is Dead FREE CHAPTER 3. Emerging Tactics and Trends – What Is Coming? 4. Influence Attacks – Using Social Media Platforms for Malicious Purposes 5. DeepFakes and AI/ML in Cyber Security 6. Advanced Campaigns in Cyber Warfare 7. Strategic Planning for Future Cyber Warfare 8. Cyber Warfare Strategic Innovations and Force Multipliers 9. Bracing for Impact 10. Survivability in Cyber Warfare and Potential Impacts for Failure 11. Other Books You May Enjoy
12. Index
Appendix – Major Cyber Incidents Throughout 2019

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Consider the following scenario. A user who works from home and has administrative rights on their machine (as most do, especially when it is their own personal device) allows their child to use that device because they need it for homework. The little tyke jumps on their parent's overly powerful, overly app-heavy, non-managed device and, instead of going to a safe homework site, they maneuver to what they thought was a seemingly innocuous site that they heard about at school.

This young user wants to see whatever this site has to offer, but in order to do that they must download a plugin on their parent's browser and an app that the site says they need to use the content on the site (remember the child can execute this operation because they have administrative privileges on this machine) – so they do.

Everything on the site works fine, no malware alerts are noted (because the malware they downloaded is new and has no...

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Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies
Published in: Feb 2020
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781839216992
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