81. Achieving International Cyber Stability
- Author:
- Franklin D. Kramer
- Publication Date:
- 09-2012
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Atlantic Council
- Abstract:
- The most disruptive potential cyber security concern is the capacity of information technology to generate or escalate geopolitical conflicts into open or uncontained hostilities through attacks on operational networks. Undermining critical capabilities such as the military or the electric power grid would be highly destabilizing and potentially escalatory, generating a perceived need to move a confrontation toward conflict or to escalate a contained conflict into a broader arena.
- Topic:
- International Cooperation, International Law, Science and Technology, and International Security