Well, you hate to feel like a big Debbie Downer, but think about it.
Information warfare.
That's a term that was inevitable to be coined.
There is just so much data that is digitally stored now in cloud based and other information technology
systems that and so many things in appliances that are now controlled by information technology.
It would only make sense that we would have this generation of information warfare and categorizations
of the different types of tactics that are used in warfare.
Unbelievable.
And we see this in modern conflicts.
So it's not just the stuff of science fiction.
So remember, this is specifically information and communication technology.
And that acronym is A.C.T..
So that's a good one.
You know, information and communication technology used as weapons.
And remember, this is both defensive and offensive.
So a lot of times when you say something like information warfare, people's minds go right away to
the attackers.
But we're also talking about the defenders here.
We're going to be engaging in information warfare in defense, starting to sound like the matrix or
something like that.
Yeah.
But again, not science fiction.
All right.
So what are the categorisations of this?
Well, there's command and control warfare where the attackers are taking control over resources of
who they're attacking.
There's what's called intelligence based warfare.
This is sensor based technology.
So this is like, oh, my goodness, where we have these sensors that are potentially corrupting information.
There's electronic warfare.
And this is dealing with cryptographic techniques oftentimes to degrade things like radio electronics.
There's psychological warfare.
This is going to be trying to, like, spread propaganda to terrorize people.
Hacker warfare, they categorize as the shutdown of systems or theft of services or even blocking of
services, and then economic warfare, which refers to the economy being attacked.
And then finally, a big catch, all cyber warfare or just the broadest of all categories.
This would include a lot of like, geez, semantic attacks against systems.
But instead of maybe harming a system, taking it over and giving it the perception that it is working
correctly.
So lots of different categorizations and that can get a little tricky.
And I wouldn't get too caught up in memorizing these subcategories, but just know that this is all
part of this new age of information warfare.
And I'll tell you, it's here.
And it's going to be another big reason that we in the cyber security profession have such job security,
quite honestly.