Cyber-Threats, Information Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection: Defending the U.S. Homeland

Book Description
Information warfare is upon us. In the last two decades, the U.S. economy's infrastructure has undergone a fundamental set of changes, relying increasingly on its service sector and high technology economy. The U.S. depends on computers, electronic data storage and transfers, and highly integrated communications networks. Its rapidly developing new form of critical infrastructure is exceedingly vulnerable to an emerging host of threats. This detailed volume examines the dangers of, and the evolving U.S. policy response to, cyberterrorism.


About the Author
ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN is Co-Director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a special consultant on military affairs for ABC News. The author of numerous books on international security issues, he has served in senior positions for the secretary of defense, NATO, and the U.S. Senate.


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Looks at the emerging threats to the high-technology sector and the efforts to deal with these threats.


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