[ISN] Cyberwars Should Not Be Defined in Military Terms, Experts Warn

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 00:50:39 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=363

By Eric Beidel
NDIA Blog
4/5/2011

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Military leaders have repeatedly proclaimed that 
they cyberspace should be considered a "battle domain," like land, sea, 
air and space.
 
But that may be the wrong approach to cybersecurity, said Martin 
Libicki, senior management scientist at the RAND Corp. It also would be 
a mistake for the U.S. government to assume that "cyber deterrence" can 
work to avert attacks, the scientist said March 31 at the Air Force 
Association’s CyberFutures symposium.
 
The United States already has a strong deterrent in the form of the 
world’s most powerful military, Libicki said. And while cyberwar 
contains elements of electronic warfare, special operations and 
terrorism, activities in cyberspace are unique and not related to other 
forms of warfare, Libicki said.
 
“Is this really a place dominated by warriors or engineers?” he said. 
“Is it a domain in which superiority makes sense? Is it a domain in 
which you can even talk about dominating because you have your 
cyberspace and they have their cyberspace? . . . You can’t talk about 
[cyberspace] as domain No. 5 and let it go at that.”

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