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Epilogue

e chapters in this compendium comprise the most sophisticated and relevant research projects

undertaken by iDefense analysts and friends over the past year. Although each chapter can stand

alone as coherent analysis, they collectively form a more powerful and illuminating whole.

e early chapters outlined the deep conceptual models and fundamental socioeconomic

and geopolitical underpinnings of information security environments, and later chapters exam-

ine, in turn, the malicious actors and organizations behind cyber threats, their most advanced

and dangerous tools, their strategies and tactics, and, finally, the steps that secur