Guerra cibernética: está a MB preparada para enfrentá-la?

Abstract

Today's digital world, able to gather, distribute or share information in increasing quantities and faster, shortened distances and allowed fluidity in personal relationships, as well as in various organizations affairs. The large information systems that manage a myriad of data and transactions from the most diverse forms of electronic interaction available to modern man are somehow at the reach of everyone via the Internet. The technological progress that generated growth and development opportunity presented itself, at the same time, as vulnerability. Society, which has become increasingly dependent on this online world, has continuously lived under the threat of a cyber attack, which can be executed with different purposes, such as data theft or systems corruption, among others. To bring more uncertainty in this scenario, the forms and methods of cyber attack evolve at a good pace, in the same ratio as technology of digital systems does. Unfortunately, this vulnerability was envisioned by other groups as a window of opportunity. Today we no longer live under the threat of cybercrime. Groups of smaller military power, whether States or other bodies, understood the great asymmetric value proportioned by a cyber attack. The world now lives in the shadow of cyberterrorism and, in the case of nation States, with the possibility of hostilities in cyberspace, i.e. a cyberwar, which imposes challenges and requires transformations. The Brazilian Navy, as one of the first national institutions using the Information Technology, has various systems, both administrative and operational, which can be the target of a cyber attack. Hence this monograph performs an analysis about cyberwar and proposes a doctrinal basis for its operational employment. In addition, performs an analysis of how the Brazilian Navy is structured to face it and suggests a series of measures to improve its capacity in respect of the new threats and opportunities posed by the cyberspace.