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CYBERSECURITY
How Should the U.S. Approach Cyberwarfare?
As the age of cyber-conflict dawns, the U.S. is wholly unprepared to respond to emerging threats.
The cyberwarfare sphere only emerged two decades ago, but it has already had a significant effect on the security of nations. The United States’ information systems vulnerabilities have made its government and private sector daily targets of hacks at different levels of severity. As technological innovations rapidly occur, cyber-attacks will become even more sophisticated and state and non-state actors may be able to hide their actions. And although the U.S. successfully implemented the largest known cyber-attack against a nation-state, its defensive capabilities are sorely lacking. The U.S. has not developed cyber-weapons as quickly as its adversaries, nor established a consistent cyberwarfare strategy. Over the next decade, the U.S. government will need to secure information systems supporting the military and national infrastructure, develop detailed plans to identify the most likely threats facing the country concerning cyberwarfare, and promote digital and media literacy to defend itself from cyber-attacks.
