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Chapter 2: Fundamental Issues
This chapter introduces some basic issues and ideas that will be relevant for the entire course. We begin in 2.1 with fundamental concepts, including the important distinction between cyber-attack and cyber-exploitation, characteristics of cyber-operations, why offense beats defense in cybersecurity, and the attribution problem. Then Section 2.2 offers various perspectives on the seriousness of the cyber threat. Finally, Section 2.3 explores the idea of cyber power.
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