1.1 Information Security of a Modern State
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1.1.5.6 E-mail Content Control Systems
Considering the above, means of protection from viruses, worms, Trojans, and attacks
have been discovered. And what about spam, confidential information leakage, unlicensed software downloads, employees aimlessly surfing the Internet, reading jokes,
playing online games? All of the above protection technologies can only partially
solve these problems. However, this is not what they were invented for. Finding
other solutions is becoming increasingly important—e-mail and web traffic monitoring tools to control all incoming and outgoing e-mails, which allow access to
various websites and to download from them (including video and audio files).
This is an actively developing area in the field of information security represented
by many well-known manufacturers—SurfControl, Clearswift, Cobion, TrendMicro,
Jet Infosystems, Ashmanov and Partners, etc.
Some other protective technologies have been used in corporate networks—
though very promising, they are not widespread. These technologies include PKI,
security event correlation systems, and a unified management system for heterogeneous means of protection. These technologies are in demand only in case of effective
use of firewalls, antiviruses, and access control systems.
Thus, in this section, we briefly reviewed the historical aspects of the emergence
and development of information security, its goals and objects, sources of threats,
technologies for ensuring information security. Figuratively speaking, information
security is a “shield” for protection against the “sword”—information weapons
(cyberweapons).
In the following sections of this chapter, we will consider in more detail the
concepts, means, and methods of influence of this relatively new type of weapon.
1.2 Basics of Information Warfare
1.2.1 Introduction
At the conceptual level, it seems fair to say that all states seek to acquire any information ensuring the achievement of their strategic and tactical goals, take advantage
of it and protect it. It can be used and protected in the economic, political, and military spheres according to the following principle: “knowledge of the information
held by the enemy is a means of strengthening our power and reducing the power
of the enemy or resisting it, as well as protecting our values, including our information.” An information weapon affects the information owned by the enemy, as
well as the information functions. Information warfare is any action aimed at using,
destroying, distorting the enemy’s information and its functions, while protecting its
own information against such actions and fully using its own military information
functions.
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1.1.5.6 E-mail Content Control Systems
Considering the above, means of protection from viruses, worms, Trojans, and attacks
have been discovered. And what about spam, confidential information leakage, unlicensed software downloads, employees aimlessly surfing the Internet, reading jokes,
playing online games? All of the above protection technologies can only partially
solve these problems. However, this is not what they were invented for. Finding
other solutions is becoming increasingly important—e-mail and web traffic monitoring tools to control all incoming and outgoing e-mails, which allow access to
various websites and to download from them (including video and audio files).
This is an actively developing area in the field of information security represented
by many well-known manufacturers—SurfControl, Clearswift, Cobion, TrendMicro,
Jet Infosystems, Ashmanov and Partners, etc.
Some other protective technologies have been used in corporate networks—
though very promising, they are not widespread. These technologies include PKI,
security event correlation systems, and a unified management system for heterogeneous means of protection. These technologies are in demand only in case of effective
use of firewalls, antiviruses, and access control systems.
Thus, in this section, we briefly reviewed the historical aspects of the emergence
and development of information security, its goals and objects, sources of threats,
technologies for ensuring information security. Figuratively speaking, information
security is a “shield” for protection against the “sword”—information weapons
(cyberweapons).
In the following sections of this chapter, we will consider in more detail the
concepts, means, and methods of influence of this relatively new type of weapon.
1.2 Basics of Information Warfare
1.2.1 Introduction
At the conceptual level, it seems fair to say that all states seek to acquire any information ensuring the achievement of their strategic and tactical goals, take advantage
of it and protect it. It can be used and protected in the economic, political, and military spheres according to the following principle: “knowledge of the information
held by the enemy is a means of strengthening our power and reducing the power
of the enemy or resisting it, as well as protecting our values, including our information.” An information weapon affects the information owned by the enemy, as
well as the information functions. Information warfare is any action aimed at using,
destroying, distorting the enemy’s information and its functions, while protecting its
own information against such actions and fully using its own military information
functions.