Cyber Threat MatrixVersion 2.4

• James N. Smith, MBA, CISSP• Lead Cyber Security Strategist,

Blue Reef Group• Instructor of Information Systems,

Georgia Southern University• 14 years experience in information

technology and security management

Combat

Infrastructure

Espionage

Financial

Political

Propaganda

Nuisance

Complexity

Intensity

Lone Organized Green Wikileaks / Non-state Developing DevelopedHacker Crime Revolution Anonymous Actors Nations Nations

Cardersmarket DowCares

SIPRNet

AlQueadaInspire

VOA

Iraq/AFDrone hack

AntiglobalizationDefacement

BBM FlashMob

Bradley Manning

Combat

Infrastructure

Espionage

Financial

Political

Propaganda

Nuisance

Complexity

Intensity

Lone Organized Green Wikileaks / Non-state Developing DevelopedHacker Crime Revolution Anonymous Actors Nations Nations

• Crime• War• Activism / Command & Control /

Propaganda

CRIME

• Three catalysts• Lack of law or order• Financially & technologically

connected• Bright, educated & dissatisfied labor• Present: Russia• Future: Egypt maybe, Africa,

definately

Current Internet “backbone”

Under Construction

War, C4I

• 1st world great powers (US, GER, JAP)• Rising powers (China, India)• Middleweight class (Isreal)

Activism, C4I, Propaganda

• Mexico / cartel war• Stateless actors (Al Qaeda, Wikileaks,

Anonymous)• Non-state actors: causes, organization,

revolutionaries, terrorists (amnesty international, civil rights movement, green revolution, ISIS)

• Anyone needing asymmetric force multiplication

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