3. Information Systems Security
3. Information Systems Security Draft of Chapter 3 of Realizing the Potential of C4I: Fundamental Challenges, National Academy Press, 1999. Written mainly by T. Berson, R. Kemmerer, and B. Lampson Security section of Executive Summary Goal: C4I Systems that remain operationally secure and available for forces in the face of attacks by adversaries. The greater the military leverage that C4I Systems provide for forces, the larger the incentives are for an opponent to attack those Systems . Indeed, it makes little sense for an opponent to challenge the symmetrically , , force-on-force. More likely avenues of challenge are asymmetric , , avenues that exploit potential vulnerabilities.
an attack. The result is vulnerability: a gap between exposure and defense on the one hand and attack on the other. This gap is growing wider over time, and it leaves DOD a likely target for disruption or pin-down via information attack. Finding S-2: The DOD response to the information systems security challenge has been inadequate.
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