Everyone Is A Participant In Information Operations

摘要

While information operations has been a priority to at least a small percentage of the global security community, it is becoming a mainstream discipline as part of the cyberwarfare initiatives now gaining precedence throughout government and industry. Recent experiences in Estonia and Georgia have convinced even the most skeptical person that cyberwarfare is a global priority and a significant combat multiplier.rnWe all know how dependent we have become on computers and digital systems and services in everything that we do. Cyberwarfare capitalizes on that dependency-ours and the enemy's. All critical infrastructure is vulnerable-ours and the enemy's. This extends to power generation, pipelines, financial systems, information systems and other services controlled digitally. Information operations, or IO, pertains to that subset of cyberwarfare that involves the generation, transmission, storage and use of information.