Cyber Infrastructure Protection: Volume II (Enlarged Edition) - Softcover

War College, U.S. Army; Institute, Strategic Studies

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1304047385 ISBN 13: 9781304047380

Publisher: Lulu.com, 2013

Synopsis

Increased reliance on the Internet and other networked systems raise the risks of cyber attacks that could harm our nation's cyber infrastructure. The cyber infrastructure encompasses a number of sectors including the nation's mass transit and other transportation systems, banking and financial systems, factories, energy systems and the electric power grid, and telecommunications, which increasingly rely on a complex array of computer networks, including the public Internet. However, many of these systems and networks were not built and designed with security in mind. Therefore, our cyber infrastructure contains many holes, risks, and vulnerabilities that may enable an attacker to cause damage or disrupt cyber infrastructure operations. Threats to cyber infrastructure safety and security come from hackers, terrorists, criminal groups, and sophisticated organized crime groups; even nation-states and foreign intelligence services conduct cyber warfare.

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TAREK N. SAADAWI is Professor and Director of the Center for Information Networking and Telecommunications (CINT), City College, The City University of New York. His current research interests are telecommunications networks, high-speed networks, multimedia networks, AD-HOC mobile wireless networks and secure communications. Dr. Saadawi has been on the Consortium Management Committee (CMC) for ARL Consortium on Telecommunications (known as Collaborative Technology Alliances on Communications and Networks, CTA-C&N), 2001- 2009. He has published extensively in the areas of telecommunications and information networks. Dr. Saadawi is a co-author of the book, Fundamentals of Telecommunication Networks (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994) which has been translated into Chinese. He was the lead author of the Egypt Telecommunications Infrastructure Master Plan covering the fiber network, IP/ATM, DSL, and the wireless local loop under a project funded by the U.S. Agency for Independent Development. He joined the U.S. Department of Commerce delegation to the Government of Algeria addressing rural communications. Dr. Saadawi is a Former Chairman of IEEE Computer Society of New York City (1986-87). He holds a B.S. and M.S. from Cairo University, Egypt, and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. LOUIS H. JORDAN, JR., is the Deputy Director of the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He recently returned from a deployment to Afghanistan where he served as Senior Military Advisor to the Afghan Deputy Minister of Interior for Counter Narcotics. He is a graduate of Fordham University in the Bronx, NY, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in sociology. Colonel Jordan’s formal education includes a master’s degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College and certification in strategic planning from the American Management Association. Colonel Jordan has served in aviation assignments from company through brigade and the national level including service at the National Guard Bureau as an operations officer, branch chief, and as the Deputy Division Chief of the Aviation and Safety Division. Colonel Jordan has commanded at the battalion, brigade, and joint task force level to include command of Joint Task Force Raven, the aviation task force for Operation JUMP START along the Southwest Border in Arizona.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1304047385
• ISBN 13: 9781304047380
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276