Global Information Warfare ─ The New Digital Battlefield

Since the turn of the century, much has happened in the world of politics, governments, spying, technology, global businesses, mobile communications, and global competition on nation and corporate levels. This book underscores how hostile countries, business competitors, terrorists, and others are waging Information Warfare (IW) against their adversaries from across the globe. It describes attacks on information systems through theft, Internet espionage, deception, and sabotage, and demonstrates countermeasures being mounted to defeat these threats.

Andy Jones has more than 40 years of military, government, business, and academic experience in the areas of intelligence, security, and digital forensics, both in the United Kingdom and overseas. He has been a practitioner for the whole period and a researcher in these areas for more than 20 years. He is currently an academic, international consultant, lecturer, and writer and is involved in research with a number of universities in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Gerald L. Kovacich has over 45 years of experience in industrial, business, and government security, investigations, intelligence/counterintelligence, source handling, information systems security, and information warfare, both in the US government as a special agent and in international corporations and subsequently as an international consultant and lecturer. He retired from his position as the information warfare technologist at Northrop Grumman Corporation to pursue a career as an international consultant, lecturer, and writer.