Andrew Colarik

Enormous efficiencies have been gained over the past twenty-five years as a result of the introduction of computers and telecommunications technologies. The use of these systems...

Cyber Terrorism: Political and Economic Implications is a cyber terrorism brief that outlines many of the recent terrorist activities, political objectives, and their use of...

Learn more about recent terrorist atrocities. Ö Identify the main sponsors of global terrorism today. Ö Comprehend the link between diminished terrorist attacks over time and...

Create a foundational understanding of traditional terrorism in order to apply its goals, methods, and means to cyber terrorism. Ö Identify the key elements that comprise the...

Begin to discern the connection between terrorism and technology. Ö Understand the evolution from hackers to crackers, crackers to cyber criminals, and cyber criminals to cyber...

Identify the major components of the global information infrastructure. Ö Begin to understand how communication network technologies are bringing the world closer together. Ö...

Understand that cyber attacks are not random but instead are executed with deliberate intent and specific purpose. Ö Identify many of the internal penetration approaches to...

Recognize that through global access to information, we are all potential targets. Ö Begin to understand just how much information that can be used against us is available in...

Briefly put the previous information presented into a context for taking action. Ö Understand the relationship between user privacy and data usage. Ö Be aware of the relationship...

Managerial Guide for Handling Cyber-Terrorism and Information Warfare presents IT managers with what cyber-terrorism and information warfare is and how to handle the problems...

The current state of the information security domain in the United States and much of the rest of the industrialized world can best be characterized as overly optimistic. The...

The events surrounding the attacks against the World Trade Center (February 26, 1993 and September 11, 2001) and the Pentagon (September 11, 2001) generated enormous interest in...

In this time of increased threats of terrorist attacks, are IT professionals really facing a new type of danger resulting from these activities? In our opinion, the answer is...

The final stage in the execution of the majority of the current waves of terrorist attacks is in the form of an intruder positioning a bomb in the proximity of the target. While...

n the early 1960s, programmers used to play memory games on a computer. The objective of the game was to disable as much of the operating system memory as possible in order to...

The mass use of the Internet as a trade and distribution tool has become the source of a new type of attack—the defacement of Web page content. Due to the nature of this...

The Domain Name Service (DNS) is a mechanism for recognizing and translating domain name addresses. These operations are carried out by devices called Domain Name Servers. Thus...

The graphic visualization of the Internet is usually presented as a mesh of connections among millions of nodes engaged in the transmission of billions of messages. These...

In recent years, several feature films have been produced based on the concept of stealing an identity. As a result of deliberate or accidental changes to personal records, a...

It is a known fact that terrorists are developing a keen set of technology skills to further their agendas. As previously stated, they use IT for their operational purposes as...

The importance of security issues relating to personnel policies has and continues to be a factor in the overall protection of organizational systems. Apart from the general...

A major focus of this book is guiding IT managers on how to secure the operations of their facilities due to increased threats from terrorist oriented attacks. As it was...

In Chapter 12, we discussed most of the information security issues that are important to IT managers, especially in the current situation of increased attacks. Perhaps the most...

Business continuity management is a process aimed at reducing disruptions caused by disasters and security failures that could be the results of natural phenomena, accidents...