Forecasting Iranian Government Responses to Cyberattacks

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ID13144164
AuthorsAusten D Givens (Utica College, corresponding author), Austen Givens, Nikki Sanders (Utica College), Corye J Douglas (Utica College)
Year2022
Volume13
Issue1
Pages219-237
Publication date2022-04-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of advanced military studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2770-2596 • E-ISSN: 2770-260X
PublisherMarine Corps University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.21140/mcuj.20221301012
OpenAlexW4313024452
LanguageEN
References cited10

Extant scholarship on Iranian cyber warfare emphasizes the ways in which Tehran’s cyber capabilities might be employed offensively to achieve its foreign policy objectives. Comparatively little attention, however, has been given to the ways in which Iran might leverage these same cyber assets in retaliatory strikes. This article argues that because of the unique combination of endogenous and exogenous variables affecting contemporary Iran, including diplomatic isolation and economic sanctions, as well as Iran’s historical track record of carrying out its foreign policy through proxies, Iranian cyber retaliation is likely to be executed through third parties, mostly symbolic in nature, and proportionate in scale

Business · Computer security · Cyber-attack · Economics · Extant taxon · Foreign policy · Government (linguistics · Isolation (microbiology · Law and economics · Leverage (statistics · Political economy · Political science · Sanctions · Scholarship · Computer Science · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · Information and Cyber Security · Law · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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