Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and National Cyber Security Strategies: Quantitative Comparison

• Autorzy: Vinhas de Souza Olesya

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.60097/ACIG/190346

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Shared understanding of the operational environment in the cyber domain is the key enabler of NATO’s cyber posture. However, there have been no attempts to evaluate empirically the impact of the war in Ukraine on intra-Alliance coherence. This study applies a novel methodology based on computation text analysis to evaluate the trends within the recently adopted national cyber strategies with regards to the description of threats, risks, and actors involved in carrying out these threats – in particular, Italy, Latvia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The analysis shows that before the large-scale invasion, the congruence was low between the two continental European states vis-a-vis the UK and the US on threat and risk assessment. After the invasion, these differences became smaller and the language of the updated National Cyber Security Strategies became more homogeneous as measured by the cosine similarity scores. There are still differences in the discussion of relevant actors in cyberspace. The methodology applied here can be extended to measure the cohesiveness of the Alliance’s cyber posture along other dimensions.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

cybersecurity; NATO; war in Ukraine; cyber strategy

PL

cyberbezpieczeństwo; NATO; wojna na Ukrainie; strategia cybernetyczna

• Wydawca: NASK – National Research Institute
• Czasopismo: Applied Cybersecurity & Internet Governance
• Rocznik: 2024
• Tom: Vol. 3, No. 1
• Strony: 261--271
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 20 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Vinhas de Souza Olesya

• Research Division, NATO Defense CollegeRome, Italy

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2234-8465

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa nr POPUL/SP/0154/2024/02 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki II" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki (2025).