Subversion as a Threat in Information Warfare
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Authors
Anderson, Emory A.
Irvine, Cynthia E.
Schell, Roger R.
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Subversion
Secure Systems
Assurance
Secure Systems
Assurance
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2004-06-00
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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As adversaries develop Information Warfare capabilities, the threat of information system subversion presents a significant risk. System subversion will be defined and characterized as a warfare tool. Through recent security incidents, it is shown that means, motive, and opportunity exist for subversion, that this threat is real, and that it represents a significant vulnerability. Mitigation of the subversion threat touches the most fundamental aspect of the security problem: proving the absence of a malicious artifice. A constructive system engineering technique to mitigate the subversion threat is identified.
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Computer Science (CS)
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As adversaries develop Information Warfare capabilities, the threat of information system subversion
presents a significant risk. System subversion will be defined and characterized as a warfare tool.
Through recent security incidents, it is shown that means, motive, and opportunity exist for subversion,
that this threat is real, and that it represents a significant vulnerability. Mitigation of the subversion threat
touches the most fundamental aspect of the security problem: proving the absence of a malicious artifice.
A constructive system engineering technique to mitigate the subversion threat is identified.
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