The modern technology in the world is growing day by day. So to enable faster and simpler networking, the countries are developing and expanding their technology. Currently there are billions of Internet user and mobile phone connections all over the world. People all around the world are very much depended on consistent access of these channels. Popularity for Internet based networking is growing exponentially, but it come at a cost. The cost is the cyber attack and crimes are increasing rapidly around the world. The attacks like email staking, hacking computers, virus attacks, etc. There was one major cyber attack in year 2000, where around 45 million computer were attacked by the computer virus all around the world[1]. There are different types of cyber attacks. The attacks like Viruses and worms, Trojan, Spam emails, Denial of service, Malware, Phishing etc. Over the past years, the cyber crime scenario has changed as the criminal are using more sophisticated attacks and also they have great knowledge of security. So in order to protect against the attacks, the systems has to be defended. As the defensive measure stationed for attacks are getting better, more sophisticated attacks are being developed by attackers, leading to increasing the complex system. However these complex, large system will poses greater problems. So there has to be some structure to evaluate the security of systems. In 1960s there was fault tree analysis which was developed to evaluate the security of systems[2]. Since the 1990s, various structure were developed, one of the structure was "attack tree".
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The Attack trees are a way to describe the security threats in a hierarchical, graphical model. The attack tree model was proposed by Bruce...
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...ks tree can be divided into various stages. By creating some measurable method there is no need for some expert in every single area instead one could have a subject expert who can assist with his inputs.
Shortcomings
Following are the shortcomings. It is easy to ignore the channel of attack as the attack tree gives false sense of security. It is hard to calculate the original cost accurately and the problem is that attack tree results are very much depended on the original cost. Attack tree doesn't consider other factors like in some cases it may be enough to catch the attacker instead of preventing the attack. Breaking down the attack into separate steps, can be difficult for attack tree. Attack tree do not consider the fact that only few people can do a physical breaking as compared to the other attack where anyone in world can attack remotely over the internet.
and their use. In Committee on Deterring Cyber attacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options (Ed.), Proceedings of a Workshop on Deterring Cyber attacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options for U.S. Policy. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.
“The hearts and mind (HAM) theory is identified as winning the hearts and minds of the population which is a technique based on the implementation of the counter-insurgency (COIN) strategy of persuading the population to support the government and reject the insurgents.” The counter-insurgency (COIN) strategy as outlined by President Obama and General Petraeus’s most closely embrace is the heart and minds (HAM) theory. President Obama speech identified the United States strategic approach with Afghanistan in three elements. The three core elements addressed by President Obama during his speech on the strategy in Afghanistan are identified as: 1) utilize the military effort to create conditions for transition, 2) a civilian surge that reinforce positive actions, and 3) an effective partnership with Pakistan.” These elements align with the premise of HAM and the strategy of COIN. Furthermore, in General Petraeus’s COIN strategy he specifically shifts the focus from the enemy and toward the empowerment of the Afghanistan population and its government.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a completely unexpected attack that caught America by surprise, which was the entire plan. But when this dragged us into World War two, the Japanese who had attacked us in the first place hadn’t meant to do so. Yamamoto Isoroku, the captain of the Japanese navy, had entirely different plans. He had spent a few of his years in America, so he thought his plan would have an entirely different effect.
Imagine that one morning there is breaking news that the U. S. Capitol has just been attacked by a missile strike. The information is plastered on every station, and there's pictures showing Washington D. C. Leveled to the ground. All of this just because in the past few years the U. S. Government tried to develop a defense system to quickly, and for that reason they didn't have adequate tests to determine whether or not the system would work. Furthermore, they wouldn't have been attacked had it not been for them trying to develop this system. Every day, this threat is becoming more of a possibility to the United States. Since this could happen, the U. S. Government shouldn't deploy their defense system unless they conduct further, more realistic tests.
Despite investing one of top security system, and spend money to boost up their defense mechanism to meet industry standard, hackers still able to find the holes of the Target system. Target seem to run into a costly mistake in this cases. However, I believe, this mistake could be happened upon anyone, what we learn to prevent it in the future is more important. I believe, as a security standpoint, we have to look at it from multiple angles and not rely on only one defense mechanism. To succeed again the hackers, educating the workforce and assessing the human factors in not only technical but also strategy and risk management must be ensured for companies to guarding against any future attacks.
The Cold War era was a vital time in world history, let alone in American history. The United States and the Soviet Union were racing to see who could accomplish what fastest. The Cold War was a time of suspicion and rivalry between America and the Soviet Union. Between both of these superpowers, they had enough nuclear weapons to kill the planet many times over. Both countries saw the other as a constant threat and were preparing for a possible war. From the years 1945 to 1991, this rivalry would expand over categories such as technology, weaponization, construction of nuclear weapons, and even reaching to the far reaches of the moon and back.
In today’s day and age, cyberattacks are becoming more prominent and effective in gaining intelligence, stealing private information and causing widespread personal and governmental concern. Many people have heard the term cyberattack before, but most do
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Terrorism and Technology It wasn’t until the morning of September 11th that America began to question just how safe we really are. As the world watched the devastation on the news, everyone was looking for comfort. However, often times when something as horrific as this happens, the ones you look to for comfort are looking back at you for comfort. Many people found what piece of mind they could, through technology, during this horrible time. The September 11 terrorist attacks have had both positive and negative impacts on the use of computers and technology.
In fact, according to several studies, more than half of all network attacks are committed internally. To determine the best ways to protect against attacks, we should understand the many types of attacks that can be instigated and the damage that these attacks can cause to data. The most common types of attacks include Denial of Service (DoS), password, and root access attacks.... ... middle of paper ... ...
The problem this paper will endeavor to address is that of cyber security or the lack of it, characterized by the cybernation of our lives, which has increased our vulnerability to cyber-attacks. The scope of the threat posed by cyber insecurity will be addressed. How severe is threat posed by cyber criminals? How do they operate? The ramifications of cybercrimes and their impact on the economy are without a doubt cause for government. In addressing the problem, however, the government faces the dilemma of acce...
Unequivocally speaking, the threat of a cyber-attack has become one of the most critical domestic and national security challenges we face as a nation today. Infrastructures supporting government operations are ...
National and International Security is a sum of the actions taken by countries and other organizations that can guarantee the safety and well being of their population. It is vital for a nation to pre-emptively discover what issues could affect their security, and take action to prevent any detrimental or harmful events from happening. With the development of technology and the transition into a more technologically savvy society, cyber security has become one of the most prevalent and important economic and national security issues that the United States will come to face.
Technology in the military has greatly increased strength and eased the ranking among world powers and effected the development of new military weapons. The term “Survival of the fittest” means that the strong will succeed but the meek will not, this is the case with military technology. The U.S. has the best technology in the world, therefore we are the highest military power.
The downside of this technology is the potential for security problems. Intruders can see packets traveling on a network and can perhaps interpret them to obtain confidential information.