Prepare the Internet for battle, suggests UK official

June 17, 2013

A recently published report on potential scenarios of cyber-conflict, The Global Cyber-Game, says it is inevitable that the Internet will be "militarized"—used to serve the needs of military conflict between nations—and that ICT will increasingly be both an important means and a target of such conflict. Published as the result of a lengthy study by the UK's Defense Academy—the educational and academic liaison unit of the Ministry of Defense—the report calls for the Internet to be significantly "hardened" from a security perspective, in order to avoid adverse effects for all its users. There is also a strong warning to governments that in their eagerness to use information technology as a weapon of war against other nations, they should avoid creating malware that will "proliferate" and cause wider harm. Rising alarm Transparency is a likely part of any scenario of digitally mediated conflict or competition, the academy says. During the current period of "rising alarm" over possible cyber-warfare, "information transparency is likely to be a persistent reality," it says. "All strategy and policy should be made as if it will become public." To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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