Literature Review on Cyber Space and Cyber Warfare

The assignment provides a comprehensive literature review on cyber space and cyber warfare, discussing their evolution, threats, and impact on corporate and government sectors. It highlights the importance of understanding these concepts in today's digital society.

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Cyber space and Cyber warfare
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Cyber space is a technology that is being used in order to connect many computing
systems with each other and sharing information mutually. Cyber warfare is a source of virtual
war that attacks the computing systems to receive the information of the oppositions and harm
them using their detailed data. This report will portray the literature review of cyber space and
cyber warfare.
According to Mazanec and Thayer (2015), Cyberspace is the platform that is needed to
establish a link between more than on computer in order to share information among themselves.
This technology enables the members of an organization to stay connected with each other and
share the required information. With the increase in usage of the technology of cyber space,
cyber warfare comes in disguise. Mitrou, et al (2016), stated that Cyber warfare is used for
attacking virtually which is done by the virtue of the extensive usage of cyber space. The data is
achievable through the cyber space platform and the data achieved is used against the owner of
the information. The military and financial computer system infrastructures have been the main
target of the cyber warfare, in order to gather the information about the military forces and the
financial computing systems are targeted in order to receive information of the banking details
and gain access to the secured documents of the organization. Again according to Clarke and
Knake, (2014) Cyber warfare is used in order to block a networking site and steal the
information from the networking site and piracy of the data is done in order to affect the brand
image of the organization. The brand image of the organization suffers due to the conflictive
conveyance of the information.
Usage of cyber space

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According to Betz (2017), Cyberspace has been an ever evolving phenomenon that is
gaining its importance because of the fact that data sharing through cyber space has no territorial
limitations. The fact that cyber space allows distribution of the information among the mass
makes this platform the most enhancing and used source of technology in today’s society.
Literacy of mass is also a benefit that cyber space provides as the data that is present in the social
media is available for the entire mass which can lead to distribution of knowledge through the
cyber space platform.
Threats of Cyber warfare
Clarke and Knake (2014), stated that Cyber warfare has been targeting the corporate
sector and the government sectors of the society. These two sectors has been the prime target of
the cyber warfare attackers as the amount of money to be achieved is the most in these fields
because the amount of income of the employed personnel is the most in these fields of the
society.
From the above discussion it can be concluded that cyber space and cyber warfare are
inter related to each other though there is not any direct source of linkage between them. The
growth in cyber space has been directly proportional to the growth of cyber warfare.

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Reference
Betz, D.J., 2017. Cyberspace and the State: Towards a Strategy for Cyber-power. Routledge.
Clarke, R.A. and Knake, R.K., 2014. Cyber war. Tantor Media, Incorporated.
Mazanec, B.M. and Thayer, B.A., 2015. Cyberspace and Cyber Warfare. In Deterring Cyber
Warfare: Bolstering Strategic Stability in Cyberspace (pp. 11-28). Palgrave Pivot, London.
Pipyros, K., Mitrou, L., Gritzalis, D. and Apostolopoulos, T., 2016. Cyberoperations and
international humanitarian law: A review of obstacles in applying international law rules in cyber
warfare. Information & Computer Security, 24(1), pp.38-52.