The future of cyber-warfare 2020

Group Members

Giorgos Valaouras
Stefan Zhelyazkov
Zoran Milkovski
Stef Cobelens
Bjorn Warsosemito

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

Questions

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?
    

-Stef

1. What is warfare?
   
2. What is Cyber-space?
   
3. What is Information warfare?
   
4. What are the standard preventive security measures against a cyber attack?
   
5. What is Cyber-crime?
   
6. What kind of damage can a cyber-attack do?
   
7. Which kind people are involved in cyber-warfare?
   
8. What are the three aspects of security?
   
9. What is a firewall?
   
10. What is a botnet?
    
11. 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?
    

-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?