Relationships between Cyberspace Operations and Information Operations

Abstract

Today thanks to the wireless networking technologies and social networks, the inter-pretation of cyberspace has expanded. According to the three-layered structure of cyberspace, not only logical effects can be induced in this domain, e.g. by malwares, but physical and cognitive effects also appear in the physical and cyber-persona lay-ers, e.g. electronic jamming the wireless communications of network or influencing and manipulating users. This approach provides an opportunity to interpret cyberspace operations in a more complex way and to apply integrated technical and cognitive information capabilities that exploit each others effects. Accordingly, this study pre-sents an expanded interpretation of cyberspace, a novel and complex approach to cyberspace operations, as well as the information capabilities that can be used in these operations.