94-803: Information Warfare
Homework 2: Technology
Due April 21, 2011 5:30pm EDT

From the following list of offensive or defensive technologies, prepare a summary of its impact on cyber war strategies and methods.  This summary should include:
a)	Which technology you are looking at
b)	What example products/tools exist for this technology
c)	What affect this technology has on network behavior
d)	What impact this change of network behavior has on the conduct of cyber war
e)	What negative (counter-strategic) impacts this technology might have
f)	What limitations (legal, policy, operational, ethical) are there on the use of this technology
Your summary has an expected length of about 3 pages, but you can expand that as needed to cover the topic adequately.

Worms/Viruses		Trojan Horses			Distributed Denial of Service
Spear Phishing		Forged Authentication	Botnets
Public Key Infrastructure	Network Firewalls		Honeynets
Spam Filtering			Virtual Private Networks	Network Encryption Devices
Flow Record Collection	Full Packet Capture		Intrusion Prevention Systems
Key Loggers			Screen Scrapers		Data Exfiltration Scripts