Building on the findings of the February 2020 cyber-expert workshop – ‘Future of cyberspace and hybrid threats’ – Hybrid CoE’s Community of Interest on Strategy & Defence together with the Research & Analysis team organized a virtual round table on actors in cyberspace. The experts discussed the hybrid threat implications of activities in cyberspace, with a focus on actor analysis, and the power depiction capabilities and interests of defensive / offensive state and non-state cyber players.
Of particular interest during the discussions were questions on the identified adversarial and predatory behavioral patterns for advancing geopolitical objectives, activities to re-shape the data-related regulatory framework in the rules-based order, and efforts to gain an advantage by deliberately operating below the threshold of armed conflict.
