Information Warfare: How to Survive Cyber Attacks
As an information security professional, I take an extreme interest in information warfare, as it is closely connected to the infosec field. Thus, I was excited to read Information Warfare: How to Survive Cyber Attacks, and see what it offered from the information security point of view.
However, author Michael Erbschloe seems to imply that readers who will benefit most from his book have a whole country under their command - that is the extremely high level at which it's aimed. People running companies will also benefit from Erbschloe's guidelines. Filled with exciting statistics, such as how many "cyberwarriors" the US will have by the year 2005 (the answer: triple the current amount), the book provides a fine-grained description of the cyberwarfare of the near future. While its style is reminiscent of an official government document, the book raises issues that might become important in the future, since our reliance on computers is constantly increasing. The book also provides the "big picture" of information warfare, a taxonomy of infowar strategies and a potential threat landscape with damage evaluation.
