There Will Be Cyberwar: How The Move To Network-Centric War Fighting Has Set The Stage For Cyberwar - Paperback

by Richard Stiennon (Author)

The move on the part of the US military, which began in 1996, to Network-Centric Warfare (NCW), meant the combination of sensor grids, C&C grids, and precision targeting to increase speed to command, and represented a military offset. Along with networking comes exposure to cyber attacks, attacks that will be used in future wars.

Author Biography

Richard Stiennon is Chief Research Analyst for IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the booming IT security industry. He is the author of Surviving Cyberwar (Government Institutes, 2010). He recently joined the advisory board of the Information Governance Initiative, and serves on the advisory boards of several security startups. He was Chief Marketing Officer for Fortinet, Inc. and VP Threat Research at Webroot Software. Prior to that he was VP Research at Gartner, Inc. He has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering (Michigan) and his MA in War in the Modern World from King's College, London.