Jason Healey:
A Fierce Domain

Jason Healey presents a fascinating overview of military history in cyberspace.

Pritzker Military Museum & Library and Cyber Conflict Studies Association present a program about the history of cyberspace and its growing importance in conflicts around the world. 

A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986 to 2012 begins with a narrative on the historical landscape of cyber conflict and the major lessons for us today. The book includes case studies of important cyber conflicts, like the conflicts in Estonia (2007) and Georgia (2008) along with the earliest cyber conflict, the 1986 “Cuckoo’s Egg” espionage, in which the KGB paid German hackers to steal information from the United States. 

The first book of its kind, A Fierce Domain identifies key lessons for policymakers, and, most importantly, where these lessons greatly differ from popular myths common in military and political circles.

"I've often complained that, while we could always use better technology or more trained people, the biggest impediment to effective cyber defense in the United States was our failure to settle on the "big ideas"--those macro-thoughts of law, policy and doctrine that should guide our cyber behavior. A Fierce Domain takes a giant step to meet this need by carefully (and entertainingly) laying out where we have already been on this journey. It turns out that we have a cyber history, after all, a history we can now put to work to guide our thinking and our future actions." 

-General Michael Hayden (Former NSA Director)

Jason Healey is the Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Atlantic Council, focusing on international cooperation, competition and conflict in cyberspace.  Previously he has worked cyber issues since the 1990s as a policy director at the White House, executive director at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong and New York, vice chairman of the FS-ISAC (the information sharing and security organization for the finance sector) and a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer.  He is a board member of Cyber Conflict Studies Association, lecturer in cyber policy at Georgetown University and author of dozens of published essays and papers.