U.S. Information Security System: Information Warfare against the Islamic state

Nowadays, we come across the notion of the term globalization on the daily basis not only when reading a newspaper, listening to a radio or watching a TV, but also when talking to ordinary citizens, who regularly monitor mass media. Worldwide spread of the Internet, which enabled fast and cheap communication between states and continents, was the turning point of this process. Since then, information has been considered as an important factor of international relations and its owners can have a serious strategic predominance in the realms of todays digitilized world, what caused the creation of information warfare and information security concepts in the end of XX. century. Globalization is also causing global problems, which are for example represented by the global terrorism headed by the so-called Islamic State. This Bachelor thesis deals with the U.S. information security system. The main objective of this thesis is to understand and explain the basic principles and concepts of the US information security system and to evaluate its current strategy against the Islamic state.