The use of cyberwar evokes strong emotional reaction and can incite action on cybersecurity topics.
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McConnell argues that deterrence is needed to prevent countries today from waging cyberwar on each other.
Kaspersky limits his definition of cyberwar to the use of cyber weapons to cause physical damage.
Unfortunately, it is a pattern of reasoning that is all too common among cyberwar apologists.
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Maybe we'll eventually see public cyberwar exercises where a country will demonstrate their attack capabilities.
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The design of cyberwar-fighting rules is complicated by the extent to which computer networks are globally interconnected.
That's not to say that no one in government had thought about the prospect of a cyberwar.
What are less well understood in this drama are the serious implications in calling the cybersecurity crisis a cyberwar.
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The establishment of a national Internet might even put a country in a better position to fight a cyberwar.
How vulnerable would the U.S. be if a global cyberwar broke out today?
Even talking about cyberwar might be grist to the mill of its proponents but it still has to be done.
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Cyberwar, either contained online or leaking into the physical world, is a mounting concern for members of governments and industries.
Richard Clarke, co-author with Robert Knake of a book on Cyberwar, was gracious enough to provide a video introduction.
Cybercrime and espionage are rising rapidly, and the United States and other governments are preparing for the possibility of cyberwar.
Various cyberwar definitions are hotly contested, even more nuance-laden and have a very material impact on the dramatic claims one might make.
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In 2009, while I was researching Surviving Cyberwar, I attended the COSAC security conference outside of Dublin for the first time.
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Perhaps America also fears that its own cyberwar effort has the most to lose if its well-regarded cyberspies and cyber-warriors are reined in.
For that discussion on useful risk policy to occur security professionals have to learn a new lexicon that includes terms like cyberwar and cybersecurity.
With all of the recent attention on Anonymous, LulzSec, hacktivism, and cyberwar, I too have been thinking about the differences between DDoS and sit-ins.
According to Olney, lack of evidence does not weaken the case for the existence of cyberwar, but rather, should serve to heighten our concern!
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The same report also warns that many high-tech attacks described as acts of cyberwar, including the antics of hacktivists, do not merit the label.
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This week, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University released the second in a series of working papers that address the growing concern over cyberwar.
This is not to say that there are not other issues that need to be resolved, and Lewis is very careful to disentangle cybercrime, cyberespionage, and cyberwar.
However, if in its basest Wikipedia definition war is a large-scale armed conflict, claiming that we are at cyberwar seems to be a sensationalist approach at best.
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Debating the meaning of cyberwar bears little on the fact that governments are going to invest in cyber defenses, cyber intelligence, and yes- offensive cyber weapons.
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Keith Alexander as the first commander of the newly-formed U.S. Cyber Command, the United States has committed itself to developing the capabilities necessary to conduct offensive cyberwar operations.
Arguing about the impossibility of cyberwar is a needless distraction.
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What are the strategic communication implications of offensive cyberwar operations?
For those that want to get up to speed, a good place to start is my Economist cover story on cyberwar last year ( here), and the accompanying leader ( here).
Perhaps it is an overstatement to see these calls for more evidence as the cause of recent efforts by cyberwar proponents and lawmakers to increase the level of transparency surrounding cybersecurity.
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