Hi Ironhorse,
That is an excellent point! I think it would be a very good exercise to break down the different forms of "cyberwarfare" into what Abbott called "Tasks" (think of that more as operations types). In general, we would have something like
Selil should add / modify this since he's the expert <grin>. However, even with such a limited a list, you can see that the type of mindset required is really quite different from most military groups (hence my comments about SF). If the USAF were serious, then they should hire back Jerry Pournelle to advise them aided and abbeted by William Gibson, Selil and yours truly .
- Offensive capabilities
- Standard (e.g. script attacks, viruses, agents, etc.)
- PSYOPS
- Defensive capabilities
- Firewalls, blocking strategies, etc.
- Anti-spyware, anti-virus, cleaning, encryption, etc.
- IO
- Tracking
- Spiders, bots, agents
- "Special ops" (think about the hunt for Kevin Mitnick)
- Intelligence gathering
- Site identification & Monitoring
- User identification, etc.
- Decryption
- R&D
Marc
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