ABSTRACT
In addition to allowing governments to broaden the scope of information they monitor and regulate, external threats could reveal new vulnerabilities. War between nations also provides a powerful motivation for developing information security policies that can protect against foreign intrusion. Smith (2012) argues that this is the most enduring lesson of the Russian cyber efforts against Estonia in 2007 and Georgia in 2008. In particular, the tension between Russia and Georgia demonstrated the need to protect computer networks (civilian and military alike) in the case of armed conflict.
