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Communications
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Efforts to conceal certain communication elements from unauthorised eavesdroppers is a practice that can be traced as far back as the Roman Empire and Julius Caesar's shift key cipher--and yet further back to the 5th and 6th centuries BC. Today's battlefield offers challenges of unrivalled proportions, most decidedly due to the problems inherent in such an electronically saturated environment.
Managing the flow of landline and wireless information beamed around a battlefield, shuffled to and from headquarters and relayed by drones and satellites to control centres tens of thousands of kilometres away is a monumental task in itself. To ensure the integrity of such communications, dodging jamming, interception, spoofing and intrusion attempts, requires a multi-tiered management system that must be adhered to at all levels else all is for nought. Couple these worries with the fact that hacking, denial of service attacks and virus creation is the hobby of today's teenagers (and others), and one is confronted with an environment tha...See the full content of this document
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