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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839216992

Length 330 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Dr. Chase Cunningham

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

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

"Law 1" – Default means dead

One of the main issues with technology in the space today is the prevalence of default configurations and accounts. Manufacturers today always set the default configurations of new software and devices to be as open and functional as possible, to enable ease of use and hopefully promote adoption of their particular product. Routers, for example, often will have a predefined password and default username. For other devices, this might mean applications that come preinstalled, again usually having "hardcoded" default login credentials available to the tool or technology.

The reason for this is because it is easier and more convenient to start using new devices or software if it has easy-to-configure default settings. But this does not help the tool or application to be secure. Default settings that are never changed and made safe creates serious security issues and provides adversaries with easy, authorized access to data and...

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Authors (1)

Dr. Chase Cunningham

Dr. Chase Cunningham

Dr. Chase Cunningham holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from Colorado Technical University and a B.S. from American Military University focused on counter-terrorism operations in cyberspace. His work helps senior technology executives with their plans to leverage comprehensive security controls and the use of a variety of standards, frameworks, and tools to enable secure business operations. He has been interviewed by and quoted in more than 150 publications across a variety of media, holds 6 patents, and was also one of Security Magazine's most influential people in security for 2019.

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