Vol. 1 Issue 2
Editorial
Welcome to the second issue of JIW. The journal was launched at InfoWarCon in Washington early in September, despite some problems with the delivery of the hard copies.
This issue contains eleven papers. Four of them (Armstrong; Furnell; Fawcett and Sowerbutts; Busuttil and Warren were selected from those presented at the 2nd Australian Information Warfare and Security conference in Perth, Western Australia (November, 2001). We are also privileged to have three eminent information warfare experts (Schwartau; Dearth; Tyrell) offer position papers. Another excellent paper from Noel et al examines anomaly detection, Chirathamjaree and Gururajan look at threat to wireless systems. Broucek and Turner delve into the expanding area of Forensic Computing whilst Davey and Armstrong give us an approach to teaching cyber warfare. I hope you find this a diverse and interesting issue.
The editors would appreciate any feed back you can give us. Are the articles of interest? What topics most interest you? Any comments on the articles (or the general area of information warfare) would be appreciated. We wish the JIW to be a forum for the use of the IW community.
Further issues are in the planning stage. The next two issues will be based on ‘themes’. Volume 1, Issue 3 will have a theme of ‘Perception Management’. Volume 2, Issue 1 will be concerned with ‘Cyber-Terrorism’. It is hoped that the following issue will use some of the best papers from the European Information Warfare and Security conference in July, 2002.
I cannot end this editorial without sending our condolences to the families and friends of the victims of September 11th. This is not the time or place to continue with this subject but it is certain that JIW will contain many references to these events in further issues
December, 2001
Table of Contents
Paper 1: Asymmetrical Adversarialism in National Defence Policy, The Marketplace and Personal Privacy
W. Schwartau
Paper 2: Network – Based Anomaly Detection Using Discriminant Analysis
G.E. Noel, S. C. Gustafson, G.H. Gunsch
Paper 3: Denial of Service and Protection of Critical Infrastructure
H.L. Armstrong
Paper 4: Categorising cybercrime and cybercriminals: The problem and potential approaches
S.M. Furnell
Paper 5: On Wireless Network Security
J.K. Fawcett and W.R. Sowerbutts
Paper 6: Intelligent Agent Technology Within Information Warfare
T.B. Busuttil, M.J. Warren
Paper 7: Critical Infrastructures and the Human Target in Information Operations
D.H. Dearth
Paper 8: Potential Security Breaches and Threats in a Wireless Computing Environment
C.Chirathamjaree, R Gururajan
Paper 9: Protecting the National Critical Infrastructure: The Human Dimension From a Government Perspective
P.J. Tyrrell, RN
Paper 10: An Approach to Teaching Cyber Warfare Tools and Techniques
J. Davey, H. L. Armstrong
Paper 11: Forensic Computing
V. Broucek, P. Turner
About the Authors
Dr Helen Armstrong is a Senior Lecturer within the School of Information systems at Curtin University, Perth Western Australia. Helen’s work experience includes accounting, programming, systems analysis, project management, IS management, IS auditing, IT consulting and university lecturing. Her interests in the area of security include computer crime, network security, Internet security, information warfare, biometrics and security management. Helen’s doctoral studies related to the security of medical informatics. Helen is the international chair of the IFIP WG11.8 on Information Security Education.
Vlasti Broucek, Researcher has been working in the computer industry since 1985 in various research and ‘hands on’ positions. Currently, he is a researcher at the School of Information Systems, University of Tasmania and a network administrator at the School of Psychology, University of Tasmania, Australia. He has a MSc degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague and currently is pursuing a PhD at the University of Tasmania.
Tyrone Busuttil is currently undertaking his 1st year of a PhD at Deakin University. His area of research concerns Information Warfare and Risk Analysis. This paper is based on scholarship work, which was concerned with Intelligent Agents and how they can be used within an Information Warfare theatre this project was completed in collaboration with Dr Matthew Warren (Deakin University)
Dr Chaiyaporn Chirathamjaree is currently a senior lecturer at the School of computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley, Australia. He graduated with First Class Honours in Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) from The University of Auckland, New Zealand. He also complete his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and doctor of Philosophy from the University of Aston in Birmingham, England. His PhD thesis was about the use of formal grammars in automatic speech recognition.
Jack Davey is the Assistant Director, Defence Security Authority for the Australian Department of Defence in Canberra, Australia. Prior to joining the Department of Defence, Jack worked in electronic engineering and communications in the aviation industry. One of Jack’s current areas of responsibility is security education within defence and the training of cyberwarriors.
Douglas H. Dearth is Course Director and Senior Instructor at both the Joint Military Intelligence Training Centre in Washington, DC, and the Defence Intelligence and Security School at Chicksands, United Kingdom. He is contributing co-editor, with Alan D. Campen, of the Cyberwar book series published by AFCEA International Press. He lectures on national security issues in the North America, the United Kingdom, and Western Europe. Mr. Dearth is a Board Member of the Journal on Information Warfare.
John K. Fawcett is a PhD student at the Laboratory for Communications Engineering at the University of Cambridge in England and a member of Churchill College. He graduated in 1999 with a first class BA Honours degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. His research interests include advanced infrastructures for location based services, wireless networking and vehicular computing. John is a member of the British computer Society, the IEE and the Royal Institute o f Navigators.
Steven Furnell PhD is the head of the Network Research Group at the University of Plymouth (UK), a post-graduate and post-doctoral team currently encompassing twelve active researchers, and associated academic staff. His current research interests include IT security, Internet and WWW technologies and mobile systems, and to date, he has published over 75 research papers in these areas. Dr Furnell is the author of a new book, ‘Cybercrime: Vandalizing the Information Society’, published by Addison Wesley.
Gregg Gunsch (Lt Col, USAF, retired) has a BSEE from the University of North Dakota (1979), MSEE from the Air Force Institute of Technology (1983), and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1991). He is an Assistant Professor of computer Engineering, currently responsible for the information systems security/assurance (information warfare) curriculum at the Air Force Institute of Technology.
Dr. Steven C. Gustafson is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air force Base, Ohio, where he teaches graduate courses and conducts research on pattern recognition techniques. He received the PhD from Duke University in 1974, was at the University of Dayton From 1976, and has had his current position since 1998. He is an author of more than 200 conference proceeding and journal papers on optical processing, neural networks, and related pattern recognition technology.
Raj Gururajan is working as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Technology at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. Raj’s research interest includes Security of Electronic Transactions in both connected ad wireless media. He has published over 50 refereed papers in conferences and journals in addition to half a dozen book chapters and a text book in Computer Science. Currently Raj is investigating Security and Privacy issues in Wireless Computing.
Lt. George E. Noel is a graduate student pursuing a Masters of Science in Information Resource Management with an Information Operations focus at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado in 1998. His ongoing thesis work uses pattern recognition algorithms to detect and categorise network based attacks.
Winn Schwartau is a leading expert on information security, infrastructure protection and electronic privacy and if often referred to as “the civilian architect of information warfare”. He coined the term “Electronic Pearl Harbour” and was the Project Lead of the Manhattan Cyber Project Information Warfare and Electronic Civil Defence Team. His books include: Information Warfare, Time-based Security, and Cybershock. He balanced his time between writing, lecturing, building corporate and national security awareness programs and consulting.
William Sowerbutts graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2001 with a first class BA Hons in Computer Science. He was a member of Churchill College and remains on the committee of the Computer Preservation Society. William currently works as a Research Engineer. His interests include ubiquitous computing, communication networks and human interfaces, as well as dismantling other people’s electronic or mechanical devices.
Dr Paul Turner Senior Research fellow, prior to joining the School of Information Systems, was a research fellow at CRID (Computer, Telecommunications and Law Research Institute) in Belgium where he worked on a variety of European Commission contracts in the field of electronic commerce telecommunications and intellectual property rights. Paul has also worked as an independent information and telecommunications consultant in a number of countries in Europe and was for three years, editor of the London-based monthly publication Telecommunications Regulation Review. Paul’s strong research focus in the field of electronic commerce continues both in his work as senior research fellow at the University of Tasmania and in his concurrent position as research manager for the Tasmanian Electronic Commerce Centre (TECC). In Paul’s work for the TECC, he is responsible for coordinating research at basic, applied and strategic levels across a range of industry sectors with a focus on small to medium sized enterprises electronic business practices.
Pat Tyrell was the Commodore, Defence Intelligence and Security School at Chicksands in April 1997. In this job he was responsible for the intellectual development of intelligence officers at al levels. He was promoted Commodore and assumed the post of Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Operations at the Defence Communication Services Agency in March 1999 and led the transition planning within the expanded Agency. In April 2001, he took up a post in the central Ministry of Defence, helping to implement the results of the Defence Training Review and taking on responsibility for Defence –wide policy on training and education.
Dr Matthew Warren is a senior lecturer of Information systems in the School of computing and Mathematics, Deakin University, Australia. Before that, he was an Information Systems lecturer at the Plymouth Business School, UK.. He has a PhD in computer Security Risk analysis Methods from Plymouth University, UK and during this time as a researcher, he worked on several large European Union research projects. He is a member of the Australian Standards Committee IT/12/4 Security Techniques, the Chair of IFIP TC 11 Working Group 11.1 – Security Management and the Director of the Australian Institute of Computer Ethics.