Cyber conflict still in infancy, states analysis

Published: 2009-10-27 Security Focus:

Policy makers have their work cut out for them as they create a doctrine for handling the military and international implications of cyber conflict, concludes a report released last week.

The analysis — completed by James Lewis, director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies — found that the July attacks that appeared to emanate from Korean cyberspace had many of the hallmarks of a cyber conflict, but that the impact of the attacks fell well short of the threshold of warfare.