Information Warfare: corporate attack and defence in a by Bill Hutchinson, Matt Warren

By Bill Hutchinson, Matt Warren

This article introduces the techniques of knowledge war from a non-military, organizational viewpoint. it's designed to stimulate managers to strengthen guidelines, suggestions, and strategies for the competitive use and defence in their info and information base. The booklet covers the whole gambit of knowledge war topics from the direct assault on computers to the extra sophisticated mental means of conception administration. It presents the framework had to construct administration options during this zone. the subjects coated contain the fundamentals of data conflict, company intelligence structures, using deception, defense of structures, modes of assault, a strategy to enhance protective measures, plus particular matters linked to details struggle. This publication might be of curiosity to executives and bosses in any public or inner most association. in particular, managers or employees within the components of data know-how, safeguard, wisdom administration, public kinfolk, or advertising may still locate it at once useful.Its major objective is to make readers conscious of the recent international of knowledge saturation; therefore reducing the opportunity that they're going to develop into sufferers of these abusing the knowledge age, when even as expanding their possibilities of taking advantage of the hot possibilities produced. Addresses the problems and implications of cyber battle and the way it without delay affects on businesses

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It is a fundamental management function. It is also responsible for any counter-intelligence operations. That is, it must ensure that any protagonists are not able to use methods to the detriment of your organisation. It is another assumption of the authors that the information/knowledge management function in an organisation is responsible for all information whether internal or external in nature, and if it is flowing around the organisation internally, or to or from the external environment.

Its sensitivity. " Legal and ethical need to keep private. " Legislative need to keep. " Operational need. " Potential for future business use. These factors must be used when determining the level of information security. They must also be used when determining its use in the public and business arena. The value of data, information, and knowledge should be made clear to staff, and controls put in place to ensure that really important information is only divulged when it should be. This can be extremely difficult as apparently innocuous data can give important information given the context.

This figure describes the raw, internal, operational data (internal data) being used in collated form to produce management reports (internal ‘information’). This information is fed into the intelligence function, as is environmental scanning data (external data) to provide the raw material to be analysed providing intelligence (the intelligence product not the function). This intelligence is provided to the policymaking function, and policies are fed back into the system. Using these policies, instructions are then sent to the operational functions for action.

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