Stuxnet
Lessons learned: Cybersecurity in the defense industry
May 07 by Ben HartwigStuxnet and Red October; what lessons can be learned from two of the most notorious cyberattacks against militaries and governments?
Reducing Systemic Cybersecurity Risk
August 04 by Defence IQ DigitalIt is unlikely that there will ever be a true cyberwar. The reasons are: many critical computer systems are protected against known exploits and malware so that designers of new cyberweapons have to...
The Weekly Recap: Robert Gates, the Laws of Cyber War and US-Poland Relations
June 20 by Robert DensmoreThe Weekly Recap is DefenceIQ.com's new approach to the latest defence and security news. The world is an incredibly confusing spectrum of defence politics, current affairs and military activity. Ou...
In the Dark: Crucial Industries Confront Cyberattacks
June 14 by Defence IQ DigitalThis year, in a sequel report, we focused on the critical civilian infrastructure that depends most heavily on industrial control systems. As with the first report, we used survey data, research, an...
'The Noise of Cyber Warfare': Private Contractors Take Up Arms Against the Cyber Threat
May 03 by Defence IQ Digital
The 3 Essential Components of Effective Cyber Warfare Strategy
March 10 by Richard de SilvaCyber commands, cyber and counter cyber activity, cyber strategy - this newest form of warfare is developing at such a rate as to nearly outpace the US military's ability to understand it. US Air Fo...
Former CIA and SOCOM Specialist Exposes Net War Realities
March 08 by Richard de SilvaDefence IQ had the privilege of speaking with John Bumgarner, Chief Technical Officer of the US Cyber Consequences Unit, a non profit research organisation dedicated to studying economic and strateg...
IO Journal: Computers as Weapons of War
March 03 by Defence IQ DigitalMost warfare throughout the two centuries of the industrial era centered on one principal strategic objective: the physical occupation of territory. The possibility of occupying territory, or the th...
'There isn't any evidence': Has Cyber Turned Into an Invisible War?
November 15 by Richard de SilvaThe UK Ministry of Defence is increasing investment into its cyber warfare capabilities, amid huge cutbacks to much of the rest of the military. The newly appointed National Security Council h...
Former British SIS Agent Warns Public of Modern Cyber Terror Threat
November 10 by Robert DensmoreNigel Inkster is from the International Institute for Strategic Studies and has served in the British Secret Intelligence Service, focusing extensively on transnational issues, and eventually tak...
Stuxnet Cometh: Defence Agencies Prepare for Next Generation Warfare
October 27 by Richard de SilvaThe emergence of the 'Stuxnet Worm', a Windows-based malware programme designed to upset and reprogramme large-scale industrial computer systems, has been described by experts as the first recognise...