Global Information Warfare : How Businesses, Governments, and Others Achieve Objectives and Attain Competitive Advantages

Like no other book before it, Global Information Warfare illustrates the relationships and interdependencies of business and national objectives, of companies and countries, and of their dependence on advances in technology. This book sheds light on the ""Achilles heel"" that these dependencies on advanced computing and information technologies create. It underscores how hostile countries, business competitors, terrorists, hacktivists and others are waging Information Warfare (IW) against their adversaries. This may sound like science fiction, but it has been happening for years and continues

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Jones, Andrew
Other Persons:	Jones, Andrew (contributor) ; Kovacich, Gerald L. (contributor) ; Luzwick, Perry G. (contributor)
Publisher:	Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
Subject:	Wettbewerbsvorteil \| Competitive advantage \| Globalisierung \| Globalization \| Welt \| World \| Internationaler Wettbewerb \| International competition \| Wettbewerbsstrategie \| Competitive strategy
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (686 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Front cover; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; SECTION I: HOW WE CAME TO WHERE WE ARE-AND BY THE WAY, WHERE ARE WE?; Chapter 1. Everything You Wanted to Know about Information Warfare but Were Afraid to Ask; Chapter 2. Fuel for the InfoWar Fire: The High-Technology Revolution; Chapter 3. The Global and Nation-State Information Infrastructures: Backbone or Achilles' Heel?; Chapter 4. Our Changing World, or Is It Really?; Chapter 5. Business, Government, and Activist Warfare: The More Things Change, The More They Don't SECTION II: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE USE OF INFORMATION WARFARE TACTICS BY BUSINESSES, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, AND ASSORTED MISCREANTSChapter 6. Information Warfare Tactics: How Can They Do That? It's the COTS, Stupid!; Chapter 7. It's All about Influence: Information Warfare Tactics by Nation-States; Chapter 8. Information Warfare: Asian Nation-States; Chapter 9. Information Warfare: Middle East Nation-States; Chapter 10. Information Warfare: European Nation-States; Chapter 11. Information Warfare: Nation-States of the Americas Chapter 12. Information Warfare: African and Other Nation-StatesChapter 13. It's All about Profits: Infromation Warfare Tactics in Business; Chapter 14. It's All about Power: Information Warfare Tactics by Terrorists, Activists, and Miscreants; SECTION III: INFORMATION WAREFARE DEFENSES: COUNTERMEASRURES, COUNTERATTACK, OR BOTH; Chapter 15. Surviving the Onslaughts: Defenses and Countermeasures; Chapter 16. Defending against Information Warfare Attacks Begins with Knowledge Management; Chapter 17. What's a CEO to Do? Ya Gotta Have A Plan Chapter 18. Those Who Do Not Accept Change and Adapt Will Be Consumed By It The Enlightened Will Survive; Chapter 19. The Twenty-First Century Challenge: Surviving in the New Century; Appendix A: Recommended Reading and References; Appendix B: Glossary of Terms; Appendix C: A Short History of Technology and Its Relationship to Warfare; Appendix D: Revolution in Infromation Affairs: Tactical and Strategic Implications of Information Warfare and Information Operations; Afterword; About the Authors; Index; Back cover
ISBN:	978-0-8493-1114-7 ; 978-1-4200-3154-6 ; 978-0-8493-1114-7
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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