New Dimensions of Information Warfare

Information Warfare Beyond the Battlefield

New Dimensions of Information Warfare examines how the manipulation of trusted information has moved far beyond military contexts and into the systems that shape everyday life. Published as volume 84 in Springer’s Advances in Information Security series, the book focuses on the social, economic, and infrastructural dimensions of modern information warfare, with each dimension treated as a distinct arena of risk, strategy, and response.

The authors combine conceptual framing with scenario-based analysis. Rather than treating information warfare as a single technical problem, they show how disinformation, financial manipulation, and attacks on critical systems can reinforce one another — and why defenders need to understand the political, economic, and engineering contexts together.

A Three-Part Map of Modern Threats

The book is organized into three major parts:

• Society — information disorder, disinformation campaigns, foreign interference in elections, malicious actors, and countermeasures aimed at limiting the spread and impact of low-quality information.
• Economy — cryptocurrencies and state-sponsored digital currencies, stock-market manipulation, high-frequency trading, remote trading risks, and systemic vulnerabilities in complex financial networks.
• Infrastructure — cyberwarfare against critical infrastructure, malware and SCADA vulnerabilities, cyber-physical threats involving drones, and the security challenges facing business entities.

Across these sections, the discussion pairs threat models with attacks, countermeasures, and open research questions. That structure makes the book useful both as a reference for specialists and as a way for advanced students to see how information security problems connect to real-world institutions.

What Makes This Book Distinctive

Much writing on information warfare is either narrowly technical or broadly speculative. This volume sits between those extremes. It uses concrete scenarios to frame each threat, then examines the technical and organizational measures that might reduce exposure. The result is a serious, research-oriented treatment of how information power is exercised across elections, markets, industrial control systems, and corporate environments.

The foreword by Roberto Baldoni places the subject in a policy and national-security context, while the main chapters keep the analysis grounded in specific technologies and attack surfaces. Readers will encounter discussions of disinformation, cryptocurrencies, algorithmic trading, critical infrastructure, SCADA systems, drones, and information gathering against companies.

Who This Book Is For

This is an advanced title suited to cybersecurity professionals, researchers, policy analysts, graduate students, and technically informed decision-makers. It assumes a serious interest in information security, but it does not require deep expertise in every domain it covers. Those working at the intersection of technology, policy, finance, and national security will find the most value in its scenario-driven approach and its effort to connect separate fields of risk.

For readers who want a structured view of how information warfare operates across society, the economy, and critical infrastructure, this volume offers a rigorous and wide-ranging starting point.