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AFCA Air Force Communications Agency AFCERT Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team AFIWC Air Force Information Warfare Center AHFID Allied High Frequency Interoperability Directory. AIA Air Intelligence Agency at Kelly Air Force Base. AIS Automated Information Systems. ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode. C2 Command and Control: Command and control functions are performed through an arrangement of personnel, equipment, communications, facilities, and procedures employed by a commander in planning, directing, coordinating, and controlling forces and operations in the accomplishment of a mission. C2W Command-and-control warfare. The integrated use of operations security, military deception, psychological operations, electronic warfare, and physical destruction, mutually supported by intelligence, to deny information to, influence, degrade, or destroy adversary command and control capabilities, while protecting friendly command and control capabilities against such actions. Command systems, rather than commanders, are the chief target, as in Persian Gulf War. C4 Command, Control, Communications, and computers. C4I Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence CARNIVORE An FBI system to monitor email and other traffic through Internet service providers. CCIPS Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (US Department of Justice) COMSEC Communications Security. Copernicus The code name under which the Navy plans to reformulate its command and control structures in response to the realization that information is a weapon. Through Copernicus, warfighters will get the information that they need to make tactical decisions. The architecture of Copernicus was designed by Vice Admiral Jerry O. Tuttle. Cracking Illegally gaining entry to a computer or computer network in order to do harm. CSCI Commercial Satellite Communications Initiative. Cyberspace The global network of interconnected computers and communication systems. Cyberwar A synonym for information warfare. DARPADefense Advanced Research Project Agency Data driven attack A form of attack that is encoded in innocuous-seeming data which is executed by a user or other software to implement an attack. In the case of firewalls, a data-driven attack is a concern since it may get through the firewall in data form and launch an attack against a system behind the firewall. DBK Dominant battlefield knowledge. Defense information infrastructure The worldwide shared or interconnected system of computers, communications, data, applications, security, people, training, and other support structures serving a nation's military's information needs. DES Data Encryption Standard DIA Defense Intelligence Agency DII See: Defense Information Infrastructure DII COE Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment DISA Defense Information Security Administration. Military organization charged with responsibility to provide information systems support to fighting units. DISC4 Army, Director of Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers DISN Defense Information System Network DNS Domain Name Service DNS spoofing Assuming the DNS name of another system by either corrupting the name service cache of a victim system, or by compromising a domain name server for a valid domain. DoD Department of Defense. Dumster diving Accessing an opponent's information by examining the contents of garbage pails and recycling bins. van Eck monitoring Monitoring the activity of a computer or other electronic equipment by detecting low levels of electromagnetic emissions from the device. Named after Dr. Wim van Eck who published on the topic in 1985. EKMS Electronic Key Management System. ELINT Electronic intelligence. EMI Electromagnetic interference. EMP Electromagnetic pulse. A pulse of electromagnetic energy capable of disrupting computers. Computer networks, and many forms of telecommunication equipment. EMP/T Bomb A device to destroy electronic networks that is similar to a HERF Gun but many times more powerful. EMSEC Emissions Security. EPS Electronic Protection System. ECHELON A multinational surveillance network, centered at Sugar Grove, WV, that intercepts all forms of electronic communications. ETAPWG DOD Information Assurance Education, Training, Awareness and Professionalization Working Group. EW Electronic warfare. Firewall A system or combination of systems that enforces a boundary between two or more networks, i.e., an electronic gate that limits access between networks in accordance with local security policy. GCCS Global Command and Control System. GCSS Global Combat Support System. Global information environment A military term for cyberspace. Hacker A person who either breaks into systems for which they have no authorization or intentionally overstep their bounds on systems for which they do have legitimate access, i.e., an unauthorized individual who attempts to penetrate information systems; to browse, steal, or modify data; deny access or service to others; or cause damage or harm in some other way. HERF High Energy Radio Frequency. As in HERF gun: a device that can disrupt the normal operation of digital equipment such as computers and navigational equipment by directing HERF emissions at them. IASE Information Assurance Support Environment. IBW Intelligence-based warfare. IPMO INFOSEC Program Management Office. Information Warfare Information warfare is the offensive and defensive use of information and information systems to deny, exploit, corrupt, or destroy, an adversary's information, information-based processes, information systems, and computer-based networks while protecting one's own. Such actions are designed to achieve advantages over military or business adversaries (Dr. Ivan Goldberg's definition) INFOSEC Information Security: Protection of classified information that is stored on computers or transmitted by radio, telephone teletype, or any other means. ISSO NSA Information Systems Security Organization. IW/C2W Information warfare/command and control warfare. J6 Joint Staff, Director for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers. JC2WC Joint Command and Control Warfare Center. JMIC Joint Military Intelligence College . . . located at Bolling Air Force Base close to Washington DC. Logic bomb Unauthorized computer code, sometimes delivered by email, which, when executed, checks for particular conditions or particular states of the system which, when satisfied, triggers the perpetration of an unauthorized, usually destructive, act. NACIC National Counterintelligence Center. NAIC National Air Intelligence Center. NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency. NIPC National Infrastructure Protection Center. NRO National Reconnaissance Office. NSA National Security Agency. This agency is charged with the tasks of exploiting foreign electromagnetic signals and protecting the electronic information critical to U. S. national security. OOTW Operations other than war. Phreaking "Hacking" the public phone network. PKI Public Key Infrastructure. Psychological operations Planned psychological activities in peace and war directed to enemy, friendly, and neutral audiences in order to influence attitudes and behavior affecting the achievement of political and military objectives. They include strategic psychological activities, consolidation psychological operations, and battlefield psychological activities. PSYOPS See: Psychological operations. RMA Revolution in Military Affairs. The realization by military that information and information technologies must be considered as a weapon in achieving national objectives via military activity. SIGINT The interception and analysis of electromagnetic signals. Spoofing Assuming the identity of another as in sending an email under someone else's name. TEMPEST Military code-name for activities related to van Eck monitoring, and technology to defend against such monitoring. Trojan horse A seemingly harmless computer virus that turns out to be extremely destructive. Virus A self-replicating program that is hidden in another piece of computer code, such as an email. Worm A self-replicating destructive program that stands alone and spreads itself through computer networks.