Relationships between Cyberspace Operations and Information Operations

Abstract

Today thanks to the wireless networking technologie s and social networks, the interpretation of cyberspace has expanded. According to the three-layered structure of cyberspace, not only logical effects can be induced in this domain, e.g. by malwares, but physical and cognitive effects also appear in the p hysical and cyber persona layers, e.g. electronic jamming the wireless communications of network or influencing and manipulating users. This approach provides an opportunity to interpret cyberspace operations in a more complex way and to apply integrated techn ical and cognitive information capabilities that exploit each other’s effects. Acordingly, this study presents an expanded interpretation of cyberspace, a novel and comple x approach to cyberspace operations, as well as the information capabilities that can be used in these operations.