How Power-Laws Re-Write The Rules Of Cyber Warfare
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12980800 |
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| Authors | Booz Allen Hamilton (Association for Computing Machinery, corresponding author), David Bibighaus |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 39-52 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Strategic Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1944-0464 • E-ISSN: 1944-0472 |
| Publisher | University of South Florida Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5038/1944-0472.8.4.1439 |
| OpenAlex | W2192070025 |
| Language | EN |
All warfare contains and element of randomness. This article will argue that, the kind uncertainty encountered in cyber warfare (Power-Law randomness) is fundamentally different from the uncertainty the military has evolved to deal with in the physical world (Gaussian-Randomness). The article will explain the difference between these two kinds of randomness, and how cyber weapons appear to operate under Power-Law randomness. It then will show how in cyberspace, key aspects of strategic thought are based on a flaws assumption of randomness. Finally, this article shall argue that if the American military is going to be effective in cyberspace, it must re-examine the way the military assumes risk, recruits is forces, plans for war and maintains the peace
Computer security · Cyberspace · Element (criminal law · Information Warfare · Key (lock · Law and economics · Physics · Political science · Power (physics · Randomness · Sociology · Statistics · The Internet · Computer Science · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · Information and Cyber Security · Law · Mathematics
| Highly cited | No |
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