NDLI: Cyber attack: A dull tool to shape foreign policy

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Iasiello, E.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	This paper examines how cyber attacks, if indeed conducted by nation states, have been unsuccessful in supporting states' foreign policy objectives. By analyzing three prominent case studies, I show that as a result of geopolitical tensions, cyber attacks were implemented to further nation state objectives in support of foreign policy considerations and failed to achieve their respective outcomes despite successful deployment against their intended targets. The three case studies, hypothetical scenarios because attribution has not been confirmed, include: (1) the October 2012 distributed denial of service attacks targeting the U.S. banking sector; (2) the 2012 Stuxnet attack against Iran; and (3) the 2007 cyber attacks against Estonia. I work with the assumption that nation states were orchestrating the attacks through proxies, or else were actual participants, based on intent, motive, and a plethora of circumstantial evidence presented in each scenario. Data has been collected from newspapers, information technology security periodicals, and expert analysis. This paper challenges the notion that states can use the threat of cyber attack to influence an adversarial nation state's behavior, much the same way the threat of nuclear weapons holds other states in check.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	18
File Size	474823
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479904501
ISSN	23255374
e-ISBN	9789949921157
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-06-04
Publisher Place	Estonia
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	NATO Coop Cyber Def Ctr
Subject Keyword	Charge coupled devices Nuclear weapons Iran Government Cyberspace Foreign policy Stuxnet DDOS Computer crime Cyber attack Estonia
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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