designing, as it describes the methods, procedures, equipment, and even compositions of the chemical reagents, used for the preparation of integrated circuits for
analysis. Here are listed the practical examples from the working experience of the
Belarussian “Trojan Busters.”
During preparation of these chapters, besides resorting to the results of their own
investigations, the authors made use also of the textual and graphic materials from
over 300 reliable literary sources, whose authors are mostly acknowledged in
Appendix to this book and to whom the authors express their sincere gratitude.
We did our utmost to identify the holders of the copyrights on the originals
of the illustrative materials and to acquire the formal permissions on their reproduction. However, our apologies are offered to those, who were inadvertently
missed out.
The conclusive Chap. 8 represents the comprehensive authors’ analysis of the
technical potentialities and limitations of the modern weapons. It is demonstrated
that specifically presence with all types of the «classic» contemporary weapons,
alongside with the huge technical potentialities of the equally substantial limitations
(drawbacks) ensued emergence of the advanced kinds of the prospective weapons,
free from the similar shortcomings: cyberweapons and neuroweapons.
On the basis of the analysis conducted by the authors of the critical analysis,
both of the theoretical potentialities and the limitations of all major kinds of
weapons—from the “classic” kinds (chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, space
weapons, microwave weapons) and from the «exotic» (atmospheric, seismic,
microwave weapons, neutron weapons)—the objective inevitability is shown of
emergence of the new kinds of weapons, such as cyberweapons and neuroweapons.
When writing this book, the authors took guidance from the following principles, easy to word, but quite hard to implement into practice:
1. Design engineers of the informational systems, specialists in informational
security, students, and their professorial staff should always be able to have
“handy” a certain systematized collection of the reference materials on the
problems of cyberweapons and methods of protection from cyberthreats.
2. In order to become a quite popular publication amongst a wide circle of specialists in cybersecurity, scientists, engineers, and students, this book should be
instrumental with the integral functions and be a classic manual, as well as a
concise reference book and an engrossing reading.
3. Representing a large volume of reference information, unlike the classic textbooks with abundance of mathematical expressions and physics formulae, the
publication should endeavor in the ever simple language to stipulate both the
major theoretical aspects of the cyberweapons problems and the main practical
aspects of arranging counteraction to the basic kinds of cyberthreats. The book
should comprise only those methods, technical and technological solutions,
whose efficiency was confirmed by practice of their application.
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analysis. Here are listed the practical examples from the working experience of the
Belarussian “Trojan Busters.”
During preparation of these chapters, besides resorting to the results of their own
investigations, the authors made use also of the textual and graphic materials from
over 300 reliable literary sources, whose authors are mostly acknowledged in
Appendix to this book and to whom the authors express their sincere gratitude.
We did our utmost to identify the holders of the copyrights on the originals
of the illustrative materials and to acquire the formal permissions on their reproduction. However, our apologies are offered to those, who were inadvertently
missed out.
The conclusive Chap. 8 represents the comprehensive authors’ analysis of the
technical potentialities and limitations of the modern weapons. It is demonstrated
that specifically presence with all types of the «classic» contemporary weapons,
alongside with the huge technical potentialities of the equally substantial limitations
(drawbacks) ensued emergence of the advanced kinds of the prospective weapons,
free from the similar shortcomings: cyberweapons and neuroweapons.
On the basis of the analysis conducted by the authors of the critical analysis,
both of the theoretical potentialities and the limitations of all major kinds of
weapons—from the “classic” kinds (chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, space
weapons, microwave weapons) and from the «exotic» (atmospheric, seismic,
microwave weapons, neutron weapons)—the objective inevitability is shown of
emergence of the new kinds of weapons, such as cyberweapons and neuroweapons.
When writing this book, the authors took guidance from the following principles, easy to word, but quite hard to implement into practice:
1. Design engineers of the informational systems, specialists in informational
security, students, and their professorial staff should always be able to have
“handy” a certain systematized collection of the reference materials on the
problems of cyberweapons and methods of protection from cyberthreats.
2. In order to become a quite popular publication amongst a wide circle of specialists in cybersecurity, scientists, engineers, and students, this book should be
instrumental with the integral functions and be a classic manual, as well as a
concise reference book and an engrossing reading.
3. Representing a large volume of reference information, unlike the classic textbooks with abundance of mathematical expressions and physics formulae, the
publication should endeavor in the ever simple language to stipulate both the
major theoretical aspects of the cyberweapons problems and the main practical
aspects of arranging counteraction to the basic kinds of cyberthreats. The book
should comprise only those methods, technical and technological solutions,
whose efficiency was confirmed by practice of their application.
Preface
ix