ACI News

Aesop’s wolves: the deceptive appearance of espionage and attacks in cyberspace
September 15, 2015 — Appearances in cyberspace are deceptive and problematic. Deception in the cyber domain poses an immensely difficult challenge for states to differentiate between espionage activities in cyberspace and cyber attacks. The inability to distinguish between cyber activities places US cyber infrastructure in a perilous position and increases the... MORE

Bringing Fear to the Perpetrators – Humanitarian Cyber Operations as Evidence Gathering and Deterrence
September 10, 2015 — Humanitarian cyber operations would allow democratic states to utilize cyber operations as a humanitarian intervention to capture information and create a foundation for decision making for collective international action supported by humanitarian international law. This follows the legal doctrine of responsibility to protect, which relies first on... MORE

Phreaker, Maker, Hacker, Ranger: One Vision for Cyber Support to Corps and Below in 2025
August 11, 2015 — "The operationalization of the Cyberspace Domain at the tactical-level continues to exacerbate both tactical theorists and practitioners alike. For theorists, much of this stress and anxiety stems from a deficiency in unclassified historical examples and the abstractness of cyberspace as a warfighting domain. The lack of historical examples and... MORE

Visualizing the Tactical Ground Battlefield in the Year 2050: Workshop Report
June 1, 2015 — This report describes the proceedings and outcomes of an Army-sponsored workshop that brought together a diverse group of intellectual leaders to envision the future of the tactical ground battlefield. The group identified and discussed the following 7 interrelated future capabilities that they felt would differentiate the battlefield of the future... MORE

Implications of Quantum Information Processing On Military Operations
May 29, 2015 — This paper discusses the benefits and drawbacks of quantum computing and quantum cryptography, subsets of the field of Quantum Information Processing (QIP). This field uses quantum mechanics for information processing rather than classical mechanics and portends game-changing implications to technologies long-relied on by military organizations,... MORE

Extremist Forums Provide Digital OpSec Training
May 28, 2015 — The average netizen has terrible digital hygiene. We click on random links, open emails from unknown individuals, use public WiFi hotspots, leave computers and devices unsecured, and often do not even use basic anti-virus packages. Most Chief Information Systems Officers’ largest problem is not a talented nation state, but rather lazy or ignorant... MORE

Shaping the Army’s Cyber Operations Force: the Human Dimension
February 12, 2015 — By declaring cyberspace an operational domain, the Department of Defense (DoD) acknowledged the criticality for successfully projecting combat power in the domain, and therefore directed all services to create a component command subordinate to U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM).Since the declaration of this entirely new operational domain, the Army... MORE

A Year of Cyber Professional Development
January 23, 2015 — This article discusses a leader development program that was instituted in the U.S. Army’s 509th Signal Battalion using reading and critical thinking as a foundation. This program focused on educating leaders (both military and civilian) about the future of our Army. It was a grass-roots effort to revive Army traditional formats of leader... MORE

A Flexible Modeling Framework for Studying Quantum Key Distribution System Implementation Non-Idealities
January 15, 2015 — Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is an innovative technology which exploits the laws of quantum mechanics to generate and distribute unconditionally secure shared key for use in cryptographic applications. However, QKD is a relatively nascent technology where real-world system implementations differ significantly from their ideal theoretical... MORE

Your Secret StingRay's No Secret Anymore
December 29, 2014 — During a 1993 congressional oversight hearing on the integrity of telephone networks, security researcher Tsutomu Shimomura used a “software hack” to turn an analog cellular phone into a scanner that enabled all present in the hearing room to hear the live conversations of nearby cellular phone users. Shimomura had been granted immunity to perform... MORE