The future of cyber-warfare 2020

Group Members

Giorgos Valaouras
Stefan Zhelyazkov
Zoran Milkovski
Stef Cobelens

Resources

http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2001/0104-04.htm
http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/cyberwarfare.html
http://www.wired.com/search?query=cyber+warfare&siteAlias=all&x=292&y=24
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/cyberwar.html

Questions

- George

1. What is the Internet backbone?
   
2. What is the Internet 2?
   
3. What are the demographics of the Internet?
   
4. What are the most common ways of accessing the Internet?
   
5. What is the e-government?
   
6. What is a virtual community?
   
7. What are government databases?
   
8. What is mass surveillance?
   
9. What is hacktivism?
   
10. What is cyber-terrorism?
    
11. What is malicious software?
    
12. What is e-money?
    
13. What is data privacy?
    
14. What is Internet censorship?
    
15. What is Internet activism?
    
16. What is a data spill?
    
17. What kind of devices can be connected to the Internet?
    
18. What are the limitations or vulnerabilities of the Internet?
    
19. Which major events of cyber-warefare/cyber-terrorism have happened in the past?
    
20. How complex can the Internet be?
    

-Stef

1. What is cyber-warfare?
   
2. What is the internet?
   
3. What is the intranet?
   
4. What is an Intrusion Dectection System?
   
5. What are the cyber vulnerabilities most often cited?
   
6. What is malware?
   
7. What is the key recommendation of the National Strategy(US) to Secure Cyberspace?
   
8. What is a trojan horse?
   
9. What is virus?
   
10. What is warfare?
    
11. What is Cyber-space?
    
12. What is Information warfare?
    
13. What are the standard preventive security measures against a cyber attack?
    
14. What is Cyber-crime?
    
15. What kind of damage can a cyber-attack do?
    
16. Which kind people are involved in cyber-warfare?
    
17. What are the three aspects of security?
    
18. What is a firewall?
    
19. What is a botnet?
    
20. What is a DDoS attack?
    

-Zoran

1. Cyber warfare, crime, terrorism or full-scale war?
   
2. Can cyber warfare have serious consequences like the Manhattan project or 9/11?
   
3. Vigilantes in the Cyberspace?
   
4. Government plans for cyber warfare (defensive and offensive strategy)?
   
5. Shifts in battlefields locations?
   
6. Spies in the cyberspace?
   
7. Cyber warfare as a propaganda machine?
   
8. Motivated cyber riots?
   
9. Privately vs. Government vs. Individual attacks?
   
10. Possibility for systematically targeted attacks in disabling a whole country?
    
11. How does cyber warfare affect the physical world today?
    
12. What is the human factor in cyber warfare?
    
13. Can the computers actually win a war?
    
14. Information revolution as the main cause behind shift in battlefield?
    
15. John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt’s distinction between Netwar and Cyberwar?
    
16. Tools and benefits required for cyberspace domination?
    
17. Cyberwar, next logical step in military doctrine?
    
18. Extensive cyber attack and the psychological consequences?
    
19. Time constraints in an effective cyber attack?
    
20. Liability laws as protection for the target of an attack?
    

-Stefan

1. What are the different categories of cyber warfare?
   
2. Who are the big players now?
   
3. Who are the emerging players?
   
4. Which are the leading research institutes for cyber warfare technologies?
   
5. Current trends of cyber weapons development?
   
6. Official policies for cyber warefare and budgets?
   
7. Hotzones and current cyber warfare conflicts?
   
8. What are the legislations for cyber warfare?
   
9. Are there any international treaties regarding cyber warfare?
   
10. How cyber warfare is recognized by international bodies?
    
11. When and how cyber warfare started?
    
12. Costs of cyber warfare?
    
13. Differences b/n cyber and conventional warfare?
    
14. Does cyber warfare can change the odds in a potential conflict?
    
15. How cyber warfare is integrated in military way of thought?
    
16. What are the actions the US government is taking in terms of cyber warfare?
    
17. What were information warfare activites?
    
18. What other activites USA is making in order to protect itself from cyber attacks?
    
19. Information Assurance – the Achilles’ Heel of Joint Vision 2010?
    
20. What are the Legal and Practical Constraints on Information Warfare?
    

Driving forces

-Political-

1. International conflicts
   
2. Cyberspace domain control
   

-Economic-

1. Information costs
   
2. Economic divide
   
3. Relatively low cost of cyber-warfare
   
4. Towards E-business economy
   

-Social-

1. Ethnic/religious intolerance/fanaticism
   
2. Trend towards Globalization
   

-Technological-

1. Security systems
   
2. Defense mechanisms (firewalls/IDS/IPS)
   
3. Offensive weapons (virusses/worms/hackers)
   
4. Growing dependency on the Internet
   
5. Dominant platforms (hardware/software)