Abstract :
This new Minitrack, CyberWarfare: Offensive and Defensive Software Technologies, is intended to bring together technical and non-technical cyberwarfare researchers, academics, and practitioners in related fields to discuss the mechanics and implications of offensive and defensive cyberwarfare activities. While the breadth of this field is extensive, the focus topics for the inaugural offering of this minitrack include offensive and defensive technologies and capabilities, impacts of cyberwarfare, information warfare, collateral damage from related activities, as well as educational, legal, policy and ethical issues associated with the controversial topic.