"Mapping the cyber underworld"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Assessing the problem -- The rise of the nonstate hacker -- The legal status of cyber warfare -- Responding to international cyber attacks as acts of war -- The intelligence component to cyber warfare -- Nonstate hackers and social web -- Follow the money -- Organized crime in cyberspace -- Investigating attribution -- Weaponizing malware -- The role of cyber in military doctrine -- A cyber early warning model -- Advice for policymakers from the field -- Conducting operations in the cyber-space-time continuum -- The Russian Federation: information warfare framework -- Cyber warfare capabilities by nation-state -- US department of defense cyber command and organizational structure -- Active defense for cyber: a legal framework for covert countermeasures.