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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"operational security"”.
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OPSEC v. RTK: Media Restrictions in United Nations Peacekeeping
… eye to the tension between the right to know and operational security. Looking at UN intervention in the Gulf War, Somalia, and Rwanda, the problems with such a rigid media policy appear significant. Instead, a dual-level approach is advocated, allowing broad principles of independent coverage as …
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Cyberwar: The ISIL Threat & Resiliency in Operational Technology
… information operations and intelligence, to operational security and desired future capabilities. Also examines open-source material and reporting on US cyber operations against ISIL and leadership statements from the DoD and others in US government. Lastly, offers a prescriptive component …
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Satan vs. Satan: the use of Black PSYOP to regain the tactical initiative in the counterinsurgency fight
… the mutually exclusive requirements of hiding (operational security) and fighting (operational effectiveness) in order to gain/maintain legitimacy without being prematurely destroyed by the state. What if the state could influence this balance? What if there was a way for the state to directly …
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Towards Data-Driven Internet Routing Security
The Internet infrastructure is critical for the security and reliability of online daily life. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the defacto global routing protocol, was not designed to cope with untrustworthy parties, making BGP vulnerable to misconfigurations and attacks from anywhere in the …
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Incorporating Obfuscation Techniques in Privacy Preserving Database-Driven Dynamic Spectrum Access Systems
… user (SU). In this thesis, we explore the operational security of IUs in SAS-based DSA systems and propose a novel privacy-preserving SAS-based DSA framework, Suspicion Zone SAS (SZ-SAS), the first such framework which protects against both the scenario of inference attacks in an area with …
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Security and Performance Issues in Spectrum Sharing between Disparate Wireless Networks
… advantages, it also raises potentially serious operational security (OPSEC) issues. In this thesis, we explore OPSEC, location privacy in particular, of incumbent radars in the 3.5 GHz band. First, we show that adversarial secondary users can easily infer the locations of incumbent radars by …
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Spectrum Efficiency and Security in Dynamic Spectrum Sharing
… As our third contribution, we investigate the operational security (OPSEC) issue raised by the emergence of new spectrum access technologies and spectrum utilization paradigms. For instance, although the use of geolocation databases (GDB) is a practical approach for enabling efficient spectrum …
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Blockchain and Distributed Consensus: From Security Analysis to Novel Applications
… transparency, and consensus-driven security promised by blockchain are unprecedented and can potentially enable a wide range of new applications that prevail in the decentralized zero-trust model. While blockchain represents a secure-by-design approach to building zero-trust …