Nexus Reviews Academic Book Review
Title: Counterdeception Principles and Applications for
National Security
Author: Michael
Bennett and Edward Waltz
Length: 338
pages
Price: $119
Copyright: 2007
Summary:
Today, more than ever, the use of denial
and deception (D&D) is being used to compensate for an
opponent’s military superiority, to obtain or develop
weapons of mass destruction, and to violate international
agreements and sanctions. Although the historical literature on
the use of strategic deception is widely available, technical
coverage of the subject is scattered in hard-to-find and
out-of-print sources. This is the first technical volume to
offer you a current, comprehensive and systematic overview of
the concepts and methods that underlie strategic deception and,
more importantly, to provide you with an in-depth understanding
of counterdeception.
Moreover, this timely book offers you an
excellent framework for the development of architectures and
systems for deception detection and other countermeasures. You
gain an in-depth understanding of the scope and complex nature
of the D&D problem, and learn how to plan and organize
research and development, system development, and operational
activities focused on counterdeception. Further, the book
suggests specific technical and organizational approaches to
help you detect and defeat the D&D plans and operations of
real and potential adversaries.
Table of Contents:
Deception and the Need for
Counterdeception – The Changing Role of Deception in
National Security. Basic Terminology. Perspectives and
Applications of Deception. Development of Deception Theory and
Literature. Book Overview. Annotated Bibliography of Principal
Deception Texts.
Introduction to Deception Principles
– Introduction. The History of Deception Analysis.
Conceptual Models and Theories of Deception. Principles and
Maxims of Deception. The View from Science. The View from
Magic. Searching for Common Themes. Fundamental Principles of
Deception: Truth, Denial, Deceit, and Misdirection.
The Cognitive Aspects of Deception: Why
Does Deception Work? – Biases Relevant to Deception. The
Impact of Cognitive Bias on the Deception Story. Cognitive Bias
and Principles of Deception.
The Technical Methods of Deception
– Taxonomy of Technical Methods. Technical Sensor
Camouflage, Concealment, and Deception. Signal and Information
Systems Denial and Deception. Human Deception Channels.
Coordinated Technical Deception Methods.
Principles of Counterdeception –
What Is Counterdeception? The Search for Ways to Counter
Deception. Searching for Common Themes. Proposed Principles of
Counterdeception.
Nontechnical Approaches to
Counterdeception – The Vulnerable Mind and the Vulnerable
Organization. Deception-Resistant Humans and Organizations: The
Prepared Mind and the Prepared Organization.
Technical Methods of Counterdeception
– The Counterdeception Elements of Detection, Discovery,
and Deterrence. Fundamental Counterdeception Technical Methods.
Counterdeception Planning and Collection Strategies.
Counterdeception Information Processing. Counterdeception
Analysis, Decision Support, and Production.
Counterdeception Architectures and
Technologies – Architecture Considerations. Operational
Architecture: Methodology and Workflow of Counterdeception.
Operational Architecture: Tools of Counterdeception. System
Architecture to Support Counterdeception.
Speculation about the Future of Deception
and Counterdeception – The Future, Changing Factors, and
Implications for Deception. Global Information Flows and Mass
Media. Deception and Counterdeception Technologies.
About the Author:
Michael Bennett works as a consultant in
northern Virginia. He has experience in both the government and
private sectors as a principle investigator and project manager
in a variety of intelligence-related disciplines including
research and development, technical operations, and analysis.
The focus of his expertise over the past 20 years has been in
developing and applying advanced technologies to the most
difficult problems of intelligence collection and analysis. Mr.
Bennett has conceived and managed projects in the areas of
product and image security, steganography, imaging sensors,
signal processing, communications receivers, direction finding,
and advanced technical collection systems. He holds a B.S.E.E.
from Purdue University and an M.B.A from the University of
Connecticut.
Ed Waltz is the Chief Scientist,
Intelligence Innovation Division of BAE Systems Advanced
Information Technologies, where he leads intelligence analysis
and information operations research for the Intelligence
Community and the Department of Defense. For the past decade,
his research has focused on modeling human systems, including
foreign leadership, organizations and social populations. He is
also the author of Knowledge Management in the Intelligence
Enterprise and Information Warfare: Principles and Operations,
and the co-author of Multisensor Data Fusion. He holds a
B.S.E.E. from the Case Institute of Technology and an M.S. in
computer, information and control engineering from the
University of Michigan.
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