Security News > 2020 > July > Cyberwarfare: The changing role of force

Whether used as a force multiplier for disinformation operations, for stand-alone projections of power or carefully calibrated escalations of conflict, cyber weapon use is growing on the international stage.

Cyber superpowers cannot easily or effectively showcase their cyber arsenal of zero-days or the cyber-physical attack points they have access to within an enemy's critical infrastructure without significantly jeopardizing those same tools and access.

As reflected in the recent Cyber Solarium Commission report released this March, the United States and most other countries have continued to focus largely on cyber offense, without recognizing that the nature of cyber has changed the national security paradigm.

AI-enabled cyber defenses will be necessary to succeed in future cyber conflicts.

When kinetic actions are too escalatory, or diplomatic and economic not "Tough" enough, cyber will be used in its own right or as a force multiplier.

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