45 min
Challenges in International Security: The limits of our understanding of cyber warfare Hertie School
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Scholars have become more interested in secret statecraft in global
politics, especially in its digital manifestations. Unfortunately, the
self-hiding nature of the phenomena make them hard to study.
Jon Lindsay, Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, points out that this is true in spades of the seminal case of Stuxnet, which has had more influence on our understanding of cyber warfare than cyber warfare ever had on Iranian enrichment. A decade on, new information and subsequent events provide additional context, but this unusual case remains shrouded in unusual secrecy.
Scholars have become more interested in secret statecraft in global
politics, especially in its digital manifestations. Unfortunately, the
self-hiding nature of the phenomena make them hard to study.
Jon Lindsay, Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, points out that this is true in spades of the seminal case of Stuxnet, which has had more influence on our understanding of cyber warfare than cyber warfare ever had on Iranian enrichment. A decade on, new information and subsequent events provide additional context, but this unusual case remains shrouded in unusual secrecy.
45 min