Lessons from the Iron Dome
By Yiftah S. Shapir
INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program
Israel has been under rocket attack for many years. Particularly memorable are the shelling of Galilee panhandle...
The Classic Cyber Defense Methods Have Failed – What Comes Next?
By Amir Averbuch and Gabi Siboni
INSS – CYBER Warfare Program
The classic defense methods employed throughout the world in recent decades are proving unsuccessful in halting modern...
Determining Norms for Warfare in New Situations
By Asa Kasher and Amos Yadlin
INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program
Between Military Ethics and the Laws of War
The ethical doctrine of the war on terror...
The Effect of Cyberwar Technologies on Force Buildup: The Israeli Case
By Gil Baram
INSS – CYBER Warfare Program
www.i-hls.com
The past decade has witnessed rapid developments in computers and information technology, leading to far reaching changes in almost all areas...
The Use of Code Mutation to Produce Multi-use Cyber Weapons
By Cohen, Daniel and Rotbart, Aviv
INSS – CYBER Warfare Program
The increasing use of cyber weapons is creating the inevitable situation in which sophisticated versions of cyber...
Legal Transparency as a National Security Strategy
By Yoni Eshpar
INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program
The act of taking initiative is considered the preferred modus operandi within the various spheres that shape and...
INSS Global Cyber Review – July 2013
Israel
Cisco to invest in Israeli cyber-security
Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, welcomes Cisco’s decision to establish an R&D lab in Israel and the cyber...
From Salafism to Jihadism
From all around the world, one can observe terrorist organizations and networks operating on behalf of various ideologies: beginning with the leftist, Marxist-Leninist terrorist...
INSS Global Cyber Review – June 2013
Global Cyber
Review
Israel
Israel taking cyber security more seriously
Hezi Kalo, CEO of the Bank of Israel, recently stated that: "We are at war, something that does not...
Emergency National Logistic Response
The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)
Military and Strategic Affairs Program
And Israel Homeland Security (i-HLS)
In cooperation with
IDF Technology and Logistics Department (ATA"L)...
INSS Global Cyber Review – June 2013
Global Cyber Review
Israel
Israel under constant threat of cyber-attack
Kaspersky Lab has revealed that in the first quarter of 2013, Israel identified almost a million network...
INSS Global Cyber Review: May 2013
Global Cyber
Review
USA
U.S. directly accuses China of cyber-attacks
The Obama administration explicitly accused China’s military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying...
Israel’s Second Lebanon War Reconsidered
By Benjamin S. Lambeth
INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program
Operation Change of Direction, the code name given to Israel’s war against Hizbollah in Lebanon...
INSS Global Cyber Review – May 2013
i-HLS ISRAEL Homeland Security
Israel
Israel’s cyber capabilities among the best in the world
According to a McAfee cyber capability report, Israel shared first place with two...
A Blueprint for Cyber Deterrence: Building Stability through Strength
By Frank J. Cilluffo, Sharon L. Cardash, and George C. Salmoiraghi
INSS - Cyber Warfare Program
In many ways, deterrence in cyberspace is eminently more complicated...
Holiday of Nowrūz, the Iranian nuclear and President Obama’s policy
Nowrūz, is one of the most important holidays in Iran dating back to the days of ancient Persia. The Holiday expresses the values of...
INSS Global Cyber Review – April 2013
Israel
Israeli Government invests in the next generation of cyber experts
The Israeli government has decided to invest approximately 300m ILS to improve research and development...
In Defense of Stuxnet
By James A. Lewis
INSS – Cyber Warfare Program
Revelations about Stuxnet and Flame have provoked a chorus of dire warnings on the dangers of cyber...
On Nuclear War: Deterrence, Escalation, and Control
By Stephen J. Cimbala
INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program
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Introduction
During the Cold War, and especially in the 1980s, there were some serious efforts...
Cyber-crime: A National Security Issue?
By Lior Tabansky
INSS – Cyber Warfare Program
Cyberspace, an offshoot of the development of computer and digital communications technologies, has in recent decades become part...
INSS Cyber Review – March 2013
Israel - Planned cyber-attack against Israel uncovered
An anonymous organization planning to commit cyber-attacks against Israel in April 2013 has recently been uncovered. The attackers, codenamed...
INSS Call for Papers
The Israel institute for national security studies (INSS) invites researches from all over the world to submit papers that will be published in its...
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Fighter Jet Without a Runway? X-BAT Makes It Real
A new unmanned vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter platform has been revealed, designed to operate from ships, islands, and austere locations while carrying...
