Cyber electronic warfare

Cyber electronic warfare (cyber EW) is any military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to control the domain characterized by the use of electronics and the electromagnetic spectrum to store, modify, and/or exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures.

Cyber EW consists of the following three activities: cyber electronic attack (cyber EA), cyber electronic protection (cyber EP), and cyber electronic warfare support (cyber ES). These three activities are defined as follows:

• Cyber electronic attack (cyber EA) is the use of electromagnetic energy to attack an adversary’s electronics and/or access to the electromagnetic spectrum with the intent of degrading, neutralizing, or destroying an enemy’s ability to store, modify, and/or exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures.

• Cyber electronic protection (cyber EP) is the passive and/or active means taken to protect electronics and/or access to the electromagnetic spectrum from any effects of friendly or enemy employment of cyber EW that degrades, neutralizes, or destroys ability to store, modify, and/or exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures.

• Cyber electronic warfare support (cyber ES) is any action to search for, intercept, identify, locate, or localize sources of intentional and unintentional radiated electromagnetic energy radiating from electronics used to store, modify, and/or exchange data via networked systems for the purpose of immediate threat recognition, planning, and/or conduct of future operations.

The four definitions above are generated by combining the definitions for cyberspace, electronic warfare, electronic attack, electronic protection, and electronic warfare support. Note that these definitions disregard the role of directed energy or anti-radiation missiles in electronic warfare.

See also

• Cyberwarfare
• Electronic warfare

References

• Cyberspace Defined
• Joint Publication 3-13.1, Electronic Warfare

External links

• The Dogs of Web War
• Why Syria's Air Defenses Failed to Detect Israelis
• The Profession of Arms in the Information Age
• Military hackers turn to commercial electronic attack tools
• Computer Viruses in Electronic Warfare
• "War--or Crime--in Cyberspace"