Information Warfare and Security: Various Types of Threats and also Recovery Methods to a Disaster (Essay Sample)

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Date: 20th April 2016
Introduction
Psyops are psychological operations. It involves the processes which help to convey certain information to someone else with the aim of influencing their emotions, reasoning or the motive. Psychological operations may be necessary both to the military and also in the social, economic and also political activities of a nation.
Perception management is influencing someone else regarding a message in a way that the audience will understand and change his or her point of view for the favor of the individual. It influences the objectives and also the reasoning of the target audience.
Perception management primary focus is the impact of the message to the target audience rather than the message itself or the method of its delivery.
Perspective on The Five Areas of Perception Management
Tactile Perception Management. It involves the information that we can get through touching something. When you touch something, you can make some conclusion or a deduction regarding that thing thus influencing your understanding and perception regarding that object.
Visual perception management. It involves the understanding and knowledge of what we see. Once you observe something most likely, it will influence your opinion. Auditory perception. The information through hearing something.
Olfactory perception management. It involves the information a person can get through smelling on something and changing the thoughts or the understanding regarding that thing.
Gustatory perception management. It includes the influence on the Information after tasting something.
Perception management helps one to interpret and understand both the verbal and nonverbal signs.
("Managing Perceptions")
Define Spam Wars
Spams are emails sent through email may be in the form of advertisements that can cause flooding of the network traffic filling up space and it can lead to denial of services.
Spam wars are the wars against the emails that may be a source of virus or even other malware effects that can cause a system crash.
Historical Examples of Spam War
Mail services like Gmail used spam on the backend. Filtering the spams was good to prevent email replication that would fill up the available space. Use of content based filters may help to reduce spam transmission on the network("No End In Sight To Spam Wars").
Digital culture in Berlin was affected by spam whereby it spam was replicating, and you could think it was the normal human communication. It replicated and flooded the network. For spam replication to reduce, spam filters may be used to control this("No End In Sight To Spam Wars").
An email of Italian woman was black holed. The email community would try to fight the spammers whereby the people thought to be blacklists would be found to be judge the judge("No End In Sight To Spam Wars").
A way of eliminating spammers was to block them with the help of their IP address.
In the year 2003 and 2004, the spammers criminals were put under pressure by the anti-spam filtering system that was using hash algorithms and also penalties for spamming. The algorithms may help to get away with the unwanted emails and ensure that they are not transmitted("No End In Sight To Spam Wars")
Acquisition Methods of Insiders
An insider is a person with the privileges and access to a database, and his or her interest is to violate the security policy of the organization.
An insider may acquire information through constraints and dependencies found in the database and get access to the information that he or she is not authorized to get.
An insider may transfer and store data through removable disks. Insiders may save the information to removable devices for their personal gain.
Insiders taking away confidential information from their employers may be from printed documents so that they can use for their self-gain.
On the database, an insider can manipulate various fields and also their dependencies that he or she is relevant to get unauthorized access to information
Insiders may use the dependencies to infer information and through the use of inference strategy, they are in a position to get access to what that is in the repository.
An insider can take advantage of the fuzzy logic and fuzzy dependency as they are transitive dependencies to get access to unauthorized information
Intrusion detection mechanisms and systems may be used to detect the leaks, and also, the defects found within the system and to identify the misuse of the information resources(Yaseen and Panda).
Examples of Privacy Compromises
Privacy compromises involve leaking of private information to an un...