ITNET305A – Emerging Technologies Security Assignment
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Emerging Technologies Security (ITNET305A)
Added on 2020-04-21
ITNET305A – Emerging Technologies Security Assignment
Emerging Technologies Security (ITNET305A)
Added on 2020-04-21
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Running head: CYBER WAR AND ELECTRONIC WARFARECyber War and Electronic WarfareName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1CYBER WAR AND ELECTRONIC WARFARECyber war refers to the act of using computer technology in order to disrupt the normalactivities of state or an organization. This is a means of performing a deliberate attack on theinformation system for strategic and military purposes. A computer is used as a medium for anetwork based conflict that involves attacks that are politically motivated by a nation stateagainst another nation state (Nicholson et al. 2012). It is considered as an important weapon forpolitical conflicts, espionage and propaganda. This is very similar to the physical war. However,the cyber attacks until now have not created any severe injury or loss of life unlike physical wars.It has not caused any direct damage to life and physical property and therefore it may not beconsidered as a war (Andress and Winterfeld 2013). Therefore, it is very interesting to evaluatewhether cyber war can be considered similar to the physical war. This essay evaluates whether acyber war will lead to the actual use of force and what changes would lead to transform a cyberwar to become a physical war. Physical warfare generally refers to the act of aggression between the opposing partiesfor a particular goal. In case of physical war, there is a probability of loss of life. On the otherhand, in cyber warfare, a hacker in order to gain access to sensitive and confidential informationor to destroy the same uses a computer or digital device. However, both physical war and cyberwar is dangerous as a physical war is capable of destroying a country for decades, while a cyberwar has a potential to destroy a country permanently (Shakarian, Shakarian and Ruef 2013). Thiscan happen if the hacker targets the economy of the country. Cyber warfare is an act ofespionage and it is hard to trace a hacker. The hacker behind the cyber warfare generally targetsthe system of other governments in order to gain the confidential information that can be usedagainst the country in the cyber war (Dinniss 2012). The cyber warfare uses internet as a toolwhile physical war uses traditional weapons and bombs.
2CYBER WAR AND ELECTRONIC WARFARECyber war can therefore be categorized as a long distance war targeting the territory ofthe enemy. Cyber war can be of different forms such as governmental attack where the hacker orenemy infects the system with malicious software, which can transfer the sensitive data of thegovernment or can destroy it by the infection of worms (Krepinevich 2012). Here the questionarises, whether the cyber war is really a war. Digital attack however, is one of the most alarmingvisions of the modern warfare as it has the capability to launch an attack sitting at a distant placefrom the enemy’s territory. By implanting malicious codes, the digital war has a capability ofhacking the pacemakers of the aging world leaders and army commanders, derail the passengertrains or trains loaded with lethal chemicals by gaining control over the automatic switches (Rid2012). With the increase sophistication digital techniques, it is not impossible for the cyberwarfare to target and claim lives of the innocent people, and therefore, it is no less than aphysical war (Kessler and Werner 2013). Cyber war can be as deadly as a physical war. The recent example is the globalransomware attack by “Wanna Cry” ransomware that locked all the important files present in acomputer system thus freezing all the activities and operations of different organizationsincluding hospitals. People had to pay ransoms in order to unlock their files. This halted theoperations of different pharmacies and hospital risking the lives of thousands of people (Mohurleand Patil 2017). Therefore, it can be said that cyber warfare is no less dangerous than a physicalwar. The rules of the physical war has also adapted to the internet age, it is very difficult tounderstand who is responsible for a massive attack (Gervais 2012). However, planning andimplementing a cyber attack is a time-consuming business ad it requires strategic and plannedapproach much similar to the physical wars. Hacking is the key skill to lay a cyber attack and
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