Operationalising Cyberspace – From Cyber Security to Operational Success
Operationalising Cyberspace – From Cyber Security to Operational Success

Summary/Abstract: The states responses to cyber security challenges have become more visiblein recent years. Integrated and comprehensive approaches are being pursuedthrough the adoption of new cyber security strategies, consistent cyberinvestment pledges and ambitious organisational adaptations. In recent yearsseveral states have acknowledged cyberspace as a place of confrontation andan operational domain, along with land, air and sea. NATO took the decisionto operationalise cyberspace in 2016. It is now adapting to new securitychallenges by setting up specialised structures for the planning and executionof cyberspace operations. Doctrinal transformations are taking place in anattempt to facilitate the understanding of the relevance cyberspace has formilitary operations.Integrating, coordinating and synchronising cyberspace operations, missionsand activities with activities in the traditional domains represent significantchallenges. The priority of military operations is the accomplishment of themission, and in order for cyberspace to contribute to this goal, a paradigm shiftin military thinking is very much needed.

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