1. Brian Marks COSC 380

2. Cyber War  What is Cyber War?  What attacks have happened?  Could this happen to us?  What defenses are in place to stop it?

3. Cyber War…  is real  is global  skips the conventional battlefield  happens at the speed of light  has begun

4. Cyber war has begun. In anticipation of hostilities, nations are already “preparing the battlefield.” They are hacking into each other’s networks and infrastructures, laying in trapdoors and logic bombs- now, in peacetime. This ongoing nature of cyber war, the blurring of peace and war, adds a dangerous new dimension of instability.

5. Past Attacks  US on Iraq (1990 & 2003)  Israel on Syria (2007)  Russia on Estonia (2007)  Russia on Georgia (2008)  North Korea on US (2009)  Israel on Iran (2011)  China on US (????)

6. The Aurora Project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJyWng Dco3g

7. US’s Greatest Risk  (2006) Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, given the floor, talked about cyber war and how vulnerable we were to it. Particularly vulnerable was the financial sector, which would not know how to recover from a data shredding attack resulting in unimaginable damage to the economy. Stunned, Bush turned to the Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who agreed with the assessment. At this point, Bush, who had been sitting behind the large desk in the Oval Office, almost jumped in the air. He moved to the front of the desk as he spoke, “Information technology is supposed to be our advantage, not our weakness. I want this fixed. I want a plan, soon, real soon.”  $50 billion dollar National Cybersecurity Initiative

8. Nation’s Defenses  North Korea  China  Russia  Israel  United States

9. US Cyber war efforts  Department of Defense  STRATCOM  US Joint Cyber Command “If you’re defending in cyberspace, you’re too late”

10. US Cyber Command Ft. Meade, Maryland Led by Director of NSA USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries

11. Proposed Diplomacy  United Nations Cyber Center  Obligation to assist  Cyber accountability  Ban on first-use cyber attacks  Prohibit preparation of the battlefield  Prohibit altering data of financial institutions at any time

12. Conclusion  What is Cyber warfare?  Previous Attacks  Potential Future Attacks  Nation’s Defenses  US Cyber war efforts  Peace in Cyberspace

13. Sources  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11 /06/60minutes/main5555565.shtml http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11 /06/60minutes/main5555565.shtml  Clarke, Richard and Robert Knake. Cyber War: the Next Threat to National Security and What to Do about It. New York: ECCO, 2010.