ABSTRACT

Cyberspace is a strategic domain characterised by stealth, plausible deniability, accusation rather than proof and suspicion rather than knowledge that can create and/or attenuate uncertainty for decision makers. In cyberspace's case, decision making and strategy transcend the purely technical realm and incorporate the same conditions as all other national security issues, necessitating broader solutions rather than purely technical ones. Cyberspace exists to facilitate human activity and is subject to human decision making with all of its foibles. Cyberspace now seems to be having a changing effect on security's threat and response vectors. In the upper left square's case, the threat to security was from the global cyber sphere on the Hidden Wiki from the underground paedophile community 'Lolita City'. In Estonia, Russia appears to have employed the strategic concept with threats from the cyber sphere of interaction to attack Estonia's cyberinfrastructure and jeopardise that state's ability to function and retaliate in the cyber sphere of interaction.