Capacity Building for Fighting Cyber Wars

Abstract

Cyberspace is growing at a speed unprecedented by any other commodity. Almost three billion people are now connected to the Internet through cyberspace; a figure growing rapidly and estimated to reach 5 billion people, using 50 billion IOT devices, by the year 2020. Today’s critical information infrastructure networks are key targets for cyber attack because they have grown to the point where they run the command and control systems, manage the logistics, enable the staff planning and operations, and are the backbone of the intelligence capabilities. More importantly today, most command and control systems, as well as the weapon systems themselves, are connected to the Global Information Grid (GIG) or have embedded computer chips