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Securing the U.S. defense information infrastructure : a proposed approach / Robert H. Anderson [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xxx, 158 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585235074
  • 9780585235073
Report number: Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Securing the U.S. defense information infrastructure.DDC classification:
  • 355.3/43 21
LOC classification:
  • UB247 .S425 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- The Information warfare threat and the MEII response -- Vulnerabilities -- Responsive security techniques -- Identifying security techniques -- Distribution of research effort -- Recommendations.
Summary: It is widely believed, and increasingly documented, that the United States is vulnerable to various types of "information warfare" attacks. Threats range from "nuisance" attacks by hackers to those potentially putting national security at risk. The latter might include attacks on essential U.S. information systems in a major regional crisis or theater war. The purpose might be to deter (or coerce) a U.S. intervention, to degrade U.S. power projection capabilities, to punish the United States or its allies, or to undermine the support of the American public for the conflict. Critical command-and-control and intelligence systems are designed to be robust and secure under attack. However, their survivability cannot be taken for granted, and they depend on a diverse, primarily civilian and commercial, information infrastructure (consisting of the Internet and the public telephone network, among other elements). As the diversity and potential seriousness of threats to the U.S. information infrastructure have become apparent, national-security planners and analysts have begun to think of ways to counter such threats--to increase the infrastructure's availability for essential functions. The authors analyze the concept of a minimum essential information infrastructure (MEII) in light of the characteristics of the national information infrastructure and the nature of the threat. They suggest that it is useful to think of the MEII as a process rather than a hardened stand-alone structure, and they provide a methodology and a tool to support the implementation of that process by military units and other organizations.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158).

It is widely believed, and increasingly documented, that the United States is vulnerable to various types of "information warfare" attacks. Threats range from "nuisance" attacks by hackers to those potentially putting national security at risk. The latter might include attacks on essential U.S. information systems in a major regional crisis or theater war. The purpose might be to deter (or coerce) a U.S. intervention, to degrade U.S. power projection capabilities, to punish the United States or its allies, or to undermine the support of the American public for the conflict. Critical command-and-control and intelligence systems are designed to be robust and secure under attack. However, their survivability cannot be taken for granted, and they depend on a diverse, primarily civilian and commercial, information infrastructure (consisting of the Internet and the public telephone network, among other elements). As the diversity and potential seriousness of threats to the U.S. information infrastructure have become apparent, national-security planners and analysts have begun to think of ways to counter such threats--to increase the infrastructure's availability for essential functions. The authors analyze the concept of a minimum essential information infrastructure (MEII) in light of the characteristics of the national information infrastructure and the nature of the threat. They suggest that it is useful to think of the MEII as a process rather than a hardened stand-alone structure, and they provide a methodology and a tool to support the implementation of that process by military units and other organizations.

Introduction -- The Information warfare threat and the MEII response -- Vulnerabilities -- Responsive security techniques -- Identifying security techniques -- Distribution of research effort -- Recommendations.

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English.

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