Decision support model for effects estimation and proportionality assessment for targeting in cyber operations

Effects Assessment for Targeting Decisions Support in Military Cyber Operations

A Computational Ontology for Cyber Operations

Due to the advancement of technology and continuing emergence of international conflict situations, wars are now also conducted into the official new battlefield: cyberspace. Although several incidents have been characterized in terms of cyber operations, there is an important gap in the existing body of knowledge concerning the definition of...

Assessment Methodology for Collateral Damage and Military (Dis)Advantage in Cyber Operations

Cyber Operations stopped being utopia or Sci-Fi based scenarios: they became reality. When planning and conducting them, military actors encounter difficulties since they lack methodologies and models that support their actions and assess their effects. To address these issues by tackling the underlying scientific and practical gap, this article...

Cyber weapons: A profiling framework

In the last decades we witnessed the creation of a virtual world: cyberspace, which offers plenty of opportunities and challenges. Meanwhile, we are confronted with many conflict situations between different groups of people or countries. In the last years, several events have been described in terms of cyber warfare or the use of cyber weapons,...

Cyber fires?

De Nederlandse krijgsmacht heeft in 2012 een Cyber Strategie1 opgesteld. In deze strategie wordt de ambitie uitgesproken om de komende jaren de digitale weerbaarheid te versterken en het vermogen te ontwikkelen om offensieve cyberoperaties uit te voeren met als doel de inzetbaarheid van de krijgsmacht te waarborgen en haar effectiviteit te...

What next for European cyber-security?