Cyber Defense Information

There are benefits with cyber - it can be used as a softer policy option with a global reach that does not require predisposition or weeks of getting assets in the right place for action. The problem occurs when you reverse the global reach, and an asymmetric fight occurs, when the global adversaries to the United States can strike utilizing cyber arms and attacks deep to the most granular participle of our society - the individual citizen. Another question that is raising concern is the matter of time. Cyber attacks and conflicts can be executed at machine speed, which is beyond human ability to lead and comprehend what is actually happening. This visualizes that cyber as a field of study is in its early stages even if we have an astronomic growth of networked equipment, nodes, and the sheer volume of transferred information. We have massive activity on the Internet and in networks, but we are not fully able to utilize it or even structurally understand what is happening at a system-level and in a grander societal setting. I believe that it could take until the mid-2030s before many of the basic elements of cyber have become accepted, structured, and understood, and until we have a global framework. Therefore, it is important to be invested in cyber research and make discoveries now rather than face strategic surprise. Knowledge is weaponized in cyber. Jan Kallberg, PhD