Cyberterror: Prospects and Implications

Abstract

This white paper begins the process of articulating the demand-side of cyberterror. In so doing, we provide some guidance for setting intelligence-gathering strategy. For, armed with useful hypotheses about the conditions under which terrorists might seek to acquire or develop their capabilities for mass disruption, the intelligence community may be able to provide at least some degree of early warning of this emerging threat. And, based on the analysis that forms another part of our study, cyberterror is at best only an emerging threat, one far less dire than is suggested by others' assessments of this phenomenon.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA393147

Entities

People

  • Greg Gagnon
  • Mark Mitchell
  • Michael Iacobucci
  • Rodney Choi
  • William C. Nelson

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Cyberattacks
  • Electronic Mail
  • Employment
  • Geography
  • Information Systems
  • International Relations
  • Local Area Networks
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Personnel Management
  • Terrorists

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Economics
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber