STSCI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nationstates
26 Jul 2016
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In the 21st century, a variety of entities use it. These include businesses, distribution networks, governments and the military a) terrorists use it as well for recruitment, training, and communication. What is conflict in cyberspace: tools/techniques- offensive= undesirable; defensive= preventing undesirable. !1: mostly seeking information that the adversary doesn"t wish to be disclosed. Tuesday, november 25, 2014: actors/participants and their motivations, nation-states are well known participants a) there isn"t definable proof , but acts are attributed to china, the us, russia, and israel. How conflict in cyberspace compares to conflict in physical space: venue for conflict. In tkc, military conflict occurs in space separate from where civilians are found a) in cyber conflict, they space is one and the same: the offense-defense balance. 1. in tkc, offense and defense are roughly in balance a) in cyber conflict, offense is inherently superior to defense: offense needs to be successful once, defense needs to be successful all the time, attribution.
