Cyberwarfare: Information Operations in a Connected World, 2nd Edition

Cyberwarfare Targets

As mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, cyberwarfare often makes a broader set of targets available to combatants for three major reasons:

• First, cyberwar is often waged outside of the traditional boundaries of armed conflict. Further, combatants who may not be nation-states often declare and covertly fight cyberwar.

• Second, civilian systems and networks are a significant portion of the available route to military and nonmilitary targets and are often easier to gain access to.

• Third, cyberwar does not have an existing body of international law limiting its scope as do the treaties that define targets in traditional combat.

This section looks at examples of cyberattacks and electronic attacks against traditional ...