A call to cyber arms.

Keeping Cool Steps for Avoiding Conflict and Escalation in Cyberspace

International cyber conflicts will become more frequent and intense. Several current trends prompt this pessimism: ongoing quantitative and qualitative cyber arms races among state actors, the proliferation of cyber weapons among state and non-state actors, a widely shared conventional wisdom that these weapons favor offense over defense, and no broadly accepted definition of the cyber attacks ...

A Vulnerability-Based Model of Cyber Weapons and its Implications for Cyber Conflict

Throughout history, mankind has developed and employed novel weapons and countermeasures. Both offensive and defensive weapon systems are limited by the laws of nature. Consequently, military concepts and doctrines were designed by implicitly taking into account those limitations. The digital age has introduced a new class of weaponry that poses an initial challenge to the common understanding ...

The Case against a Cyber Arms Treaty

Preface: A Call to Arms

Towards a C2I Platform for Combating the Cyber-Threat

In my talk, I outline a number of cyber-attacks that have been reported in recent years, and examine the vulnerability of organisations and critical infrastructure to them. I then discuss an approach to combating cyber-threats that integrates specialised tools within a managed service platform to create a command, control an intelligence (C2I) system used to co-ordinated defences against a dive...