Andress, J., & Winterfield, S. (2011). Cyber warfare: Techniques, Tactics, and Tools for Security Practitioners. Waltham, MA: Syngress. [Full text e-book available in the Safari Books Online database.]
This book is designed to cover the strategic, operational, and tactical aspects of the conflicts in cyberspace today. The perspectives of the two authors balance the view-points of what many are calling cyber warfare today. One comes from a commercial background and the other brings the military viewpoint. The book is designed to help anyone understand the essentials of what is happening today, as well as provide a strong background on the issues we are facing. This book is unique in that it provides the information in a manner that can be used to establish a strategic cybersecurity vision for an organization but it is also designed to contribute to the national debate on where cyber is going.
Combating cybercriminals: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, Committee on Financial Services, House of Representatives, 112th Cong. (2011). [Full text available via UMUC Library OneSearch: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
Testimony given on 9/14/11 by the Assistant Director of the FBI, the Deputy Under Secretary of the Dept. of Homeland Security, executives at Bank of America, Verizon, and Symantec, and others.
Intelligence and National Security Alliance. (2011, September). Cyber intelligence: Setting the agenda for an emerging discipline. Retrieved from https://images.magnetmail.net/images/clients/INSA/attach/INSA_CYBER_INTELLIGENCE_2011.pdf
This paper is the first in a series developed by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance’s Cyber Council. It is intended to broaden the vision of senior decision makers in government and industry. Our goal with this paper is to set the landscape for cyber intelligence by discussing why it is necessary and providing thoughts on how to approach the development of this function in the cyber domain. While there is a great deal of focus on current cyber security issues, there is little focus on defining and exploring the cyber threat environment at a higher level. Its unique dynamics and impact on our economy and national security are understudied. In this paper, we will focus primarily on defensive cyber activities. There is a rapidly increasing need to fully leverage cyber intelligence assets and capabilities on a national and global scale to address this ubiquitous, diverse, and evolving group of adversaries. There is also a need to clearly define an emerging cyber intelligence discipline that can be quickly and transparently shared with appropriate private and foreign partners.
Sheldon, F. T., & Vishik, C. (2011, September). Moving toward trustworthy systems: R&D essentials. Computer, 44(9), 31-40. Retrieved from http://www.computer.org [Full text available in the IEEE Computer Science Digital Library database.]
Under the game-change metaphor, strategies developed to address hard problems will potentially lead to breakthroughs in many different interrelated cybersecurity areas. For software assurance, a game change should focus on improving resiliency and hardening new technologies that implement moving-target defenses and tailored trustworthy spaces.
