Definitions
Generic Definition: Cyberspace is a ubiquitous domain characterized by the use of electronics and the electromagnetic spectrum to store, modify, and exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures.
Cyber-warfare: Cyber-warfare (also known as cybernetic war, or cyberwar) is the use of computers and the Internet in conducting warfare in cyberspace.
A New Reality: The truth is that “Cyberspace” is an ambiguous term grouping together a hybrid set of capabilities enabled through various communications technologies. Those capabilities viewed synergistically, though, extend beyond the enabling medium/s.
Principals of Cyberspace
- Cyberspace is unique and ubiquitous; it is both its own domain as well as a dimension within all other domains.
- As we progress, the boundaries between cyber-operations and conventional operations will blur. Understanding that merger of capabilities and the planning for it is perhaps our greatest challenge.
- Cyberspace represents a single point of failure for the Federal Government. It provides asymmetrical opponents the opportunity to disrupt and defeat a vastly superior foe.
What Does it all Mean?
Cyberspace is unique and ubiquitous; it is both its own domain as well as a dimension within all other domains.
As we progress, the boundaries between cyber-operations and conventional operations will blur. Understanding that merger of capabilities and the planning for it is perhaps our greatest challenge.
Cyberspace represents a single point of failure for the Federal Government. It provides asymmetrical opponents the opportunity to disrupt and defeat a vastly superior foe.
Cyberspace has changed literally everything - it will become increasingly difficult to separate from other "Domains"
