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<strong>Cyber</strong> functions<br />

Maritime<br />

Land<br />

Air and space<br />

Signals intelligence<br />

Information<br />

operations/<br />

activities<br />

Communications and<br />

information systems<br />

Infrastructure,<br />

organisation,<br />

personnel<br />

<strong>Cyber</strong> and<br />

electromagnetic<br />

activities,<br />

electromagnetic<br />

spectrum<br />

Electromagnetic activities<br />

Electronic warfare<br />

Electromagnetic spectrum operations<br />

<strong>Cyber</strong><br />

Figure 3.2 – <strong>Cyber</strong> littorals in context of the operating environment<br />

3.23. Information operations and information activities. The first ‘cyber<br />

littoral’ area is that of information operations and information activities.<br />

Information operations and activities are closely associated with cyber<br />

capability and there is a large degree of subject matter overlap. The key<br />

distinguishing feature between the two areas is the scope of the operating<br />

environment. Whilst cyber operations take place in and through cyberspace,<br />

information operations can also use any of the operating environments to<br />

pursue its aims. We can use cyber and cyberspace to enable information<br />

operations and activities in a symmetric or asymmetric manner.<br />

<strong>Cyber</strong> <strong>Primer</strong> (2nd Edition) 61

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