International Cyber Terrorism

An active defense:
• Has greater efficacy than reactive systems.
• Drastically reduces the volume and severity of attacks leading to an order-ofmagnitude
fewer alerts, incidents, and costs. Thus, passing these savings to
cybersecurity.
• Provides early warning and indicators to model zero-day signatures to incident
response mechanisms and enumerate attack networks through cyber threat
intelligence.
• In not subject to scalability issues around performance and cost like reactive
systems.
• Uniquely has the capability to shape contested space.
History
In the fifth century, B.C., Sun Tzu advocated foreknowledge (predictive analysis) as part
of a winning strategy. He warned that planners must have a precise understanding of
the active threat and not "remain ignorant of the enemy's condition". The thread of
proactive defense is spun throughout his teachings.
Page 75 of 174