Strategic Cyber Deterrence (eBook)

The Active Cyber Defense Option

Scott Jasper (Autor)

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2017
288 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0490-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book offers a systematic analysis of the various existing strategic cyber deterrence options and introduces active cyber defense as a technically capable and legally viable alternative strategy for the deterrence of cyber attacks. It examines the array of malicious actors operating in the domain and their methods of attack and motivations.

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According to the FBI, about 4000 ransomware attacks happen every day. In the United States alone, victims lost $209 million to ransomware in the first quarter of 2016. Even worse is the threat to critical infrastructure, as seen by the malware infections at electrical distribution companies in Ukraine that caused outages to 225,000 customers in late 2015. Further, recent reports on the Russian hacks into the Democratic National Committee and subsequent release of emails in a coercive campaign to apparently influence the U.S. Presidential Election have brought national attention to the inadequacy of cyber deterrence. The U.S. government seems incapable of creating an adequate strategy to alter the behavior of the wide variety of malicious actors seeking to inflict harm or damage through cyberspace. This book offers a systematic analysis of the various existing strategic cyber deterrence options and introduces the alternative strategy of active cyber defense. It examines the array of malicious actors operating in the domain, their methods of attack, and their motivations. It also provides answers on what is being done, and what could be done, by the government and industry to convince malicious actors that their attacks will not succeed and that risk of repercussions exists. Traditional deterrence strategies of retaliation, denial and entanglement appear to lack the necessary conditions of capability, credibly, and communications due to these malicious actors' advantages in cyberspace. In response, the book offers the option of adopting a strategy of active cyber defense that combines internal systemic resilience to halt cyber attack progress with external disruption capacities to thwart malicious actors' objectives. It shows how active cyber defense is technically capable and legally viable as an alternative strategy for the deterrence of cyber attacks.

Autor

Scott Jasper, CAPT, USN (ret) is a Lecturer in the National Security Affairs Department at Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA.

Inhalt

I. Thinking About Deterrence1. Strategic Landscape 2. Cyber Attacks3. Theoretical FoundationsII. Traditional Deterrence Options4. Deterrence by Retaliation5. Deterrence by Denial6. Deterrence by EntanglementIII. A Strategic Alternative7. Active Cyber Defense8. Alternative Strategy SelectionAppendix: National Strategy Agenda

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.7.2017
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Cyber defense • cyber security • cyber threat • Homeland Security • International Security • national security
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-0490-3 / 1538104903
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-0490-3 / 9781538104903