Editorial

Welcome to the 11^th issue of JIW. I must apologize for the delay in this issue. Factors beyond our control contributed to this. However, this issue addresses a variety of topics and come from authors in a number of nations (the UK, Finland, and Australia ). The first from Darnton looks at the use of content analysis in information warfare, whilst Jormakka and Molsa examine the more mathematically base game theory as a tool in information warfare. Rowlingson looks at the ever present threat from insiders as a threat to information security. Hutchinson looks at information and its changing nature and use by governments, and finally Jones, Mee, Meyler, and Gooch examine the security threat from the casual disposal of data storage media.  

Please keep submitting your papers. Please note that you make the editors job a lot easier if you submit in the correct format, ensuring that spelling mistakes and so on have been dealt with and that references are complete.  

I hope you enjoy this issue.  

Bill Hutchinson

Chief Editor

September, 2005.

Email: w.hutchinson@ecu.edu.au

Table of Contents

Paper 1: Content Analysis as a Tool of Information Warfare

G. Darnton    

Paper 2: Modelling Information Warfare as a Game

J. Jormakka and J. V. E. Mölsä

 Paper 3: Inside and out? The information security threat from insiders

R. R.Rowlingson

 Paper 4: The ‘Flexibility’ of Official Information during Contemporary Conflicts

W. E. Hutchinson 

Paper 5: Analysis of Data Recovered from Computer Disks released for Resale by Organisations

A. Jones, V.Mee, C.Meyler, J.Gooch

About the Authors

Geoffrey Darnton is Head of Knowledge Transfer in the Institute of Business and Law at BournemouthUniversity. He produced and edited a substantial part of ‘The Bomb and the Law’ giving a summary and final/judgment of the London Nuclear Warfare Tribunal. His main area of/specialism is Information Systems (non-computer and computer-based) with/a particular research interest in Information Warfare and the ‘soft’/side of the Revolution in Military Affairs.

Joanna Gooch graduated from SwanseaUniversityin 2001 with a BSc in Computer Science. Since then she has been researching for her Ph.D in the field of Knowledge-Based Network File Systems.

Bill Hutchinson is the IBM Chair of Information Security at Edith Cowan UniversityWestern Australia. He is Chief Editor of the Journal of Information Warfare. His interests are strategic deception and information operations and he has published extensively in these areas.

Andy Jones, during a full military career, directed both Intelligence and Security operations and briefed the results at the highest level and was awarded the MBE for his service in Northern Ireland. After 25 years service with the British Army’s Intelligence Corps he became a business manager and a researcher and analyst in the area of Information Warfare and computer crime at a defence research establishment. In Sept 2002, he left the defence environment to take up a post as a principal lecturer at the University of Glamorganin the subjects of Information Security and Computer Crime and as a researcher on the Threats to Information Systems and Computer Forensics. He developed and managed a well equipped Computer Forensics Laboratory and took the lead on a large number of computer investigations and data recovery tasks. He holds a Ph.D. in the area of threats to information systems.

Jorma Jormakka is professor of command, control and communication systems in the National Defence College, Finland. He passed his Ph.D. in mathematics 1988 and since 1987 has been working in telecommunications in many research and development units in industry, research institutes and academic positions, including professorships of telecommunications in Helsinki University of Technology and Lappeenranta University of Technology. His current research current work focuses on military networks, network security, netwarfare and use of networks on a battlefield as a technical part of information warfare.