Cyber-threats, Information Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection: Defending the U.S. Homeland

by Justin G. Cordesman and Anthony H. Cordesman

Book Overview

During the last two decades, the infrastructure of the U.S. economy has undergone a fundamental set of changes. It has steadily increased its reliance on its service sector and high-technology economy. The U.S. has come to depend on computers, electronic data storage and transfers, and highly integrated communications networks. The result is the rapid development of a new form of critical infrastructure--and one that is exceedingly vulnerable to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275974235
• ISBN13: 9780275974237
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"