From: FierceGovernmentIT
By Greg Slabodkin
The United States will likely find itself in a cyber crisis owing to the fact that cybercrimes and espionage continue to rise and the risks from cyberspace are growing, according to a recently-released Rand Corporation monograph (.pdf) prepared for the Air Force. Crises are less likely to “emanate from the unavoidable features of cyberspace” than from “each side’s fear, putatively exaggerated, of what may result from its failure to respond,” the report says.
Rand’s basic message for Air Force planners: Crisis and escalation in cyberspace can be managed as long as policymakers understand the key differences between nonkinetic conflict in cyberspace and kinetic conflict in the physical world. Nonkinetic operations also encompass psychological or information operations, but the Rand study focuses on cyberperations.
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