Deterrence by Denial approach for the most known State Cyber
Vulnerabilities
- Nasser AlAzwani
, - Tom Chen
Abstract
Cyber deterrence by denial strategy can be practised by the state by
making it hard for adversaries to succeed any attempt of attacking. It
was practised during nuclear deterrence strategies as well as in many
other conventional deterrence. This paper argues the functionality of
cyber deterrence by denial in deterring cyber threats. In this paper,
our attempt is to define cyber deterrence by denial, model it, explore
operational roles of cyber security technologies in approaching
deterrence by denial within cyber space. Model analysis shed lights over
practicing deterrence by denial and its vital role in understanding how
efficiently denial can work in maximize failure of any attack which will
impact in maximizing cost of cyber attacks to the attacker. Due to
limitations in cyber security technologies, unknown cyber threat might
not be deterred with assumed approach. Proposed model confirmed that
deterrence by denial strategy might works in deterring known cyber
threats within instrumental model. As for the benefit of enhancing
deterrence in cyber space there is a serious need to reduce the tendency
to ignore exploring this strategy.