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CyberSecurity
Intelligence Threat Assessments

• National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, White House release, February 2003
• "CYBERTHREAT: PROTECTING U.S. INFORMATION NETWORKS" U.S. Foreign Policy Agenda USIA Electronic Journal, Vol. 3, No. 4, November 1998

• Cybernation: The American Infrastructure in the Information Age A Technical Primer on Risks and Reliability Office of Science and Technology Policy National Security and International Affairs Division 1-7-98

• PUBLIC MEETING ON COMMENTS RECEIVED ON DRAFT REPORT "NII SECURITY: THE FEDERAL ROLE" - GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION -- March 18, 1996

• INFORMATION AGE TERRORISM: TOWARD CYBERTERROR By Matthew J. Littleton, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey CA, December 1995
• Information Warfare and Deterrence By Gary F. Wheatley and Richard E. Hayes [NDU Press, December 1996]
• Defensive Information Warfare By DR. DAVID S. ALBERTS [ National Defense University Press, August 1996]
• Information Warfare and Deterrence by Richard E. Hayes and Gary Wheatley, October 1996
• Defining Civil Defense in the Information Age by W. Oscar Round and Earle L. Rudolph, Jr. September 1995
• The Future of Information Security by Martin Libicki

• Law of Armed Conflict and Information Warfare--How Does the Rule Regarding Reprisals Apply to an Information Warfare Attack? Daniel M. Vadnais; Andre Provoncha (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1997
• International Law: How it Affects Rules of Engagement and Responses in Information Warfare? Robert D. Miller; Michael R. Foster (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1997
• Information Warfare: Planning the Campaign Richard R. Ayres; Jay Patrice Bullock; Donald J. Davitz (Faculty Advisor); Brahim Erhili; Bruce B. Harding; Fredrick P. Okello; Alan J. Perdigao Air Command and Staff College 1996 -- Provides a logical look at the generic information, analysis, and tools required by an information warrior.
• Organizing Joint Forces for Information Operations: The Viability of a Joint Force Information Operations Component Commander Jeffrey D. Seinwill; Douglas G. Drake (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1999 -- A number of sources advocate creating a separate information component headed by a joint force information operations component commander (JFIOCC) as the best way to integrate information operations (IO) into joint forces.
• Third World Computer Systems: A Threat to the Security of the United States? Al G. Keeler; Mark L DeVirgilio (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1997
• Information Warfare: Combating the Threat in the 21st Century Mary M. Gillam; Timothy Ryan (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1997
• Information Warfare (IW): Air Staff Roles and Responsibilities Dwayne W Frye; John R Corneil (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1997

• National Information System Security - 22 May 1996
  Senate Committee on Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
  • Information Security: Computer Attacks at Department of Defense Pose Increasing Risks - (General Accounting Office - Chapter Report, 05/22/96, GAO/AIMD-96-84)

• Security in Cyberspace - 5 June 1996
  Senate Committee on Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
  • Sam Nunn, Ranking Minority Member, Opening Statement
  • Minority Staff Statement DAN GELBER, Chief Counsel (Minority), and JIM CHRISTY, Investigator (Minority), Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
  • JACK L. BROCK, JR., Director, Defense Information and Financial Management Systems
  • KEITH A. RHODES, Technical Assistant Director, Office of Chief Scientist, General Accounting Office
  • RICHARD G. POWER, Editor, Computer Security Institute, including Computer Security Institute study viewgraphs
  • RICHARD D. PETHIA, Manager, CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team), Carnegie Mellon University
  • Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) declined to testify, citing confidentiality considerations.

  Foreign Information Warfare Activities Against the United States - 25 June 1996
  Senate Committee on Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

  • John Deutch, Director of U.S. Central Intelligence

  Computer Security in the Federal Government
  February 10, 1998 - Senate Commerce Science, Technology, and Space Subcommittee

  • G. Edward DeSeve, Comptroller and Acting Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget
  • Raymond Kammer, Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Frank Perry, Assistant Deputy Director, Joint Interoperability Engineering Organization, Defense InformationSystems Agency, Department of Defense
  • Len Baptiste, Director of Systems Standards and Evaluation, Internal Revenue Service
  • Lee Holcolmb, Chief Information Officer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Critical Infrastructure Protection - Information Assurance
  June 11, 1998 - House Military Procurement and
  Military Research & Development Subcommittees

  • Opening Statement of Chairman Curt Weldon
  • Opening Statement of Chairman Duncan Hunter
  • Jeffrey Hunker , Director, Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office
  • John J. Hamre , Deputy Secretary of Defense
  • Linton Wells, II, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence, Department of Defense
  • BGEN John H. Campbell, USAF, Deputy Director for Information Operations (J-39), Department of Defense
  • GAO Letter # B-280243: DoD's Information Assurance Efforts

  National Infrastructure Protection
  10 June 1998 Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on
  Terrorism, Technology and Government Information

  • Michael Vatis National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC)

  "CYBER ATTACK: IS OUR NATION AT RISK?"
  Vulnerabilities of the National Information Infrastructure
  June 24, 1998 Senate Governmental Affairs Committee

  • SENATOR FRED THOMPSON PREPARED STATEMENT
  • GEORGE J. TENET DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
  • Lieutenant General Kenneth Minihan, Director, NSA