TY - BOOK ID - 101241331 TI - United States' defend forward cyber strategy: a comprehensive legal assessment PY - 2022 SN - 019760112X 0197601812 0197601820 9780197601792 9780197601129 9780197601815 9780197601808 0197601790 0197601804 PB - Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Computer security KW - Cyberinfrastructure KW - Law and legislation KW - Government policy KW - Security measures KW - Cyber-based information systems KW - Cyber-infrastructure KW - Electronic data processing KW - Information technology KW - Computer networks KW - Computer systems KW - Distributed databases KW - High performance computing KW - Distributed processing KW - Computer privacy KW - Computer system security KW - Computers KW - Cyber security KW - Cybersecurity KW - Electronic digital computers KW - Protection of computer systems KW - Security of computer systems KW - Data protection KW - Security systems KW - Hacking KW - Protection KW - Law UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101241331 AB - In the 2010s, America's adversaries conducted numerous damaging cyber operations inside the United States: the Office of Personnel Management breach, attacks on banks, persistent intellectual property theft by China, and the Russian intervention in the 2016 election. The US--possessor of the world's most powerful cyber arsenal--responded in 2018 by unveiling a new Defend Forward strategy. It is a large step in the direction of more aggressive action in cyberspace--albeit for defensive ends. The US has not attempted to hide this shift. To the contrary, it has telegraphed the change. But the telegraphing has taken place at a highly abstract level. Very little is known about precisely what types of operations Defend Forward entails. While the US government has asserted that Defend Forward is consistent with domestic and international law, it has not explained how the new strategy overcomes the perceived legal constraints that previously tempered US responses to cyber intrusions andthreats. This volume, edited by Jack Goldsmith and featuring a cast of leading scholars in the field, provides an authoritative overview of the origins and operation of Defend Forward, and a comprehensive assessment of its legality. For anyone interested in the future of great power conflict and the cyber strategies that the US is deploying against its adversaries, The United States' Defend Forward Cyber Strategy is an essential read. ER -