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The (New) Security Dilemma: Impact of technological innovation on the security dilemma
Kadre, Sudhanshu ; Špelda, Petr (advisor) ; Šenk, Michal (referee)
The enduring concept of the security dilemma seen from the lens of the technological revolution in Information Security provides a different perception than the traditional version of the dilemma. Moving from apparent to perceived threats, the underlying fear and uncertainty between state actors in an anarchic system have witnessed an increase. This thesis has the objective to study the effect of the advancements in Information and Community Technology, particularly in Cybersecurity, on the perception of the security dilemma. By analysing the basis of Information Security theory while simultaneously probing the cyber threat landscape through the use of case studies of cyber attacks and cyber diplomacy, the thesis highlights the relevance of the security dilemma in cyberspace
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Moving Toward Strategic Cyber War Theory? Analysis of Russian State-backed Cyber Attacks
Green, Joshua ; Erkomaishvili, David (advisor) ; Landovský, Jakub (referee)
This thesis analysed cyber-attacks conducted by two pairs of nation states (Russia/Ukraine and Iran/Israel) against each other, through the lens of Jan Kallberg's Strategic Cyberwar Theory in order to determine if elements of the theory are being applied and if so, how they are being applied. This thesis also attempts to give insights as to whether this represents a shift towards the Strategic Cyber War Theory becoming a practical reality. The thesis finds that elements of Kallberg's theory are clearly visible, to varying degrees, in the offensive campaigns conducted by all the nation states studied. Each nation state employed a different strategy in terms of which pillars of society and organisations were targeted. All the evidence points towards cyber-attacks becoming a more important tool for nation states pursuing their political and strategic goals. However, the notion of the Strategic Cyber War Theory becoming a reality is far more uncertain, with other tools likely to remain more important, particularly during wartime (such as the traditional branches of military service). If a level of technological sophistication can be reached where cyber-attacks can be conducted which have the disruptive capabilities of the NotPetya cyber-attack seen in 2017 but are able to be maintained over a...
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Artificial Intelligence as the upcoming Revolution in Military Affairs. The Cases of the United States and China through the lens of Strategic Culture
Macagno, Vittorio ; Kučera, Tomáš (advisor) ; Špelda, Petr (referee)
Artificial intelligence is nowadays a key element in many people's everyday life. Since its beginning, this technology has grown leaps and bounds, drastically revolutionizing everything it has touched throughout its developing process. Arguably, every aspect of society has more or less been impacted by artificial intelligence. Military affairs do not appear to be immune to this, with many examples of this technology's implementation in this field appearing more and more. However, it appears likely that the effects experienced so far by countries' military affairs are still quite limited, with the technological potential of artificial intelligence bound to drastically change military affairs altogether. So much so that it can be even argued that artificial intelligence has the potential to completely revolutionize them. For this reason, one may argue that this technology could be the upcoming Revolution in Military Affairs. This thesis will look into this specific idea, aiming to prove that the world is witnessing the coming of a new Revolution in Military Affairs, based on artificial intelligence. To verify this idea, the methodology this work will make use of consists of taking all of the three levels of war one by one, to then analyze the revolutionary potential that AI has in transforming each...
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Cyber war for the Bronze soldier. Analysis of the computer attacks on Estonia in the spring of 2007
Plaček, Zdeněk ; Švec, Luboš (advisor) ; Vykoukal, Jiří (referee)
At the end of April 2007 a serious crisis between Estonia and the Russian Federation broke out in relation to the relocation of a war memorial from Tallinn city centre to the military cemetery on the outskirts of the city. Immediately after the displacement of The Bronze Soldier statue some rather unusual events happened whereby a number of web servers used by government offices, news portals and Estonian banks were attacked by anonymous hackers. The situation lasted for approximately three weeks and many people related to it as a type of cyber war. This work's ambition is, in the form of case study, to comprehend the incident in its historical, political and social aspects and on the bases of the lessons learned, to search for the answer to the question about how much the use of the term "cyber war" is justified in these circumstances. In the conclusion I incline to the opinion that the events were more likely just another manifestation of nationally oriented protests and disputes about history that were simply finding new space for their expression. Despite the many inconveniences that the failures of electronic services have caused to the people of Estonia, the use of war terminology in this case is rather exaggerated.
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Cyber war for the Bronze soldier. Analysis of the computer attacks on Estonia in the spring of 2007
Plaček, Zdeněk ; Švec, Luboš (advisor) ; Vykoukal, Jiří (referee)
At the end of April 2007 a serious crisis between Estonia and the Russian Federation broke out in relation to the relocation of a war memorial from Tallinn city centre to the military cemetery on the outskirts of the city. Immediately after the displacement of The Bronze Soldier statue some rather unusual events happened whereby a number of web servers used by government offices, news portals and Estonian banks were attacked by anonymous hackers. The situation lasted for approximately three weeks and many people related to it as a type of cyber war. This work's ambition is, in the form of case study, to comprehend the incident in its historical, political and social aspects and on the bases of the lessons learned, to search for the answer to the question about how much the use of the term "cyber war" is justified in these circumstances. In the conclusion I incline to the opinion that the events were more likely just another manifestation of nationally oriented protests and disputes about history that were simply finding new space for their expression. Despite the many inconveniences that the failures of electronic services have caused to the people of Estonia, the use of war terminology in this case is rather exaggerated.
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Cyberterrorism and digital piracy
Knopová, Martina ; Zachoval, František (advisor) ; Šlerka, Josef (referee)
The thesis "Cyberterrorism and digital piracy" deals with the description of aims, motivation, tools, and consequences of current cyberwars. First of all, it concentrates on features of cyberconflicts while trying to indentify and define the essence of cyberterrorism, its principles, causes, and threats. Besides a description of common cyberwar methods, it provides a reader with a detailed analysis of the "Information Assurance" concept, which represents a form of strategy used to define risks of information security in the cyberspace. The analytic part of the thesis concerns concrete cases of the international cyberterorism and its forms in the 2007 to 2010 cyberwars. It also analyses some particular cyberattacks from the geopolitical point of view in a chronoligical way, especially those that happened in the European-Russian, Asian-American and Middle-Eastern regions. The comparation of the theoretical "Information Assurance" model and partial analyses of individual cyberwar examples has showed that not to keep the model reasons in the real disruption of the information security for a particular system. This fact notably contributed to the inception of aforementioned cyberconflicts, therefore the validity and applicability of the Information Assurance" concept the has been proved.
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Cybersecurity
Fleischmannová, Veronika ; Havlová, Radka (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
This master thesis entitled Cybersecurity deals with cybersecuriy issue. The theoretical part defines basic concepts related to cybersecurity and cyber threats classification. The practical part deals with a case study regarding disputes between China and the US in cyberspace. The goal will be to test a hypothesis that China and the United States are at cyberwar with each other.
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