Should Business be Interested in Information Warfare

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Should Business be Interested in Information
Warfare?

• YesBecause Information Warfare is Interested in
  Business!!
• Dr Dan Kuehl, kuehld_at_ndu.edu
• Director, Information Strategies Concentration
  Program
• IRM College, National Defense University
• My Opinions not the USG, DOD or NDU
• CISSE 2005 Annual Colloquium

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Issues

• Definition What ARE Critical Infrastructures?
• Context Where Did This Issue Come From?
• Threats
• Policy Issues
• Implications for military and economic national
  security

Schweinfurt
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Banking Finance
Telecomm
Electrical Power
From the CIIP Handbook 2004, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, Zurich httppublishingho
use.isn.ch
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Information Warfare Threats

• Infrastructure Attacks Could
• Act as Force Multiplier
• Degrade Critical Military Capabilities
• C3I, Logistics, Personnel/Medical Readiness
• Dislocate Response and Counter-Measures
• Limit USG Ability to Project Power Elsewhere
• Increase Panic and Disruption
• Create Strategic Distraction

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Chinese IW

• China overlays IW with ideology
• Mao Zedong, Sun Tzu
• New Peoples War--Overcome superior with
  inferior
• China emphasizes non-technological
• IW is an unconventional warfare weapon
• Not a battlefield force enabler/multiplier
• Info campaign precludes the need for military
  action!---a preemption weapon
• Jim Mulvenon, PLA in Info Age, RAND

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Chinese IW Mike Pillsbury, Chinese Views of
Future Warfare, NDU Press

• Weapons will reach over the horizon and cross
  national boundaries to attack command centers,
  C3 hubs, info processing centersand supply
  systems
• soft EW/IW replacing hard strike forces to
  interfere with/destroy other sides info and
  cognitive systems
• War triggered by disruptions to the network of
  the financial sectorinfo related domains will be
  first to be mobilized and enter the war.
• Eliminate enemy countrys war-making material
  base.control and destroy information systems

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Who Defends?

• Uniformed military forces does
• private sector facilities in peacetime
• Enemy attack from air-ground-sea-outer space
• Bombers, tanks, battleships, killer satellites
• BUT what if the attack uses trons from
  cyberspace?!

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Questions to Ponder

• How Is Defending the Infosphere Different from
  Defending the Nations Air, Land Sea Borders
  (Or Is It?)
• Is an Information Warfare Attack the Same as
  Armed Aggression?
• What Responses Are Appropriate and Feasible?
• Who respondsand how?
• Military mission such as air defense?

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Business and IW

• Why be concerned?
• Business is a possible/likely target
• Insurance?
• Public perceptions and confidence
• Allied/Combined reactions
• Too late to deploy air defenses and torpedo nets
  on December 8, 1941