Public Attribution of Cyber Intrusions

Author(s): Florian Egloff
Journal Title: Journal of Cybersecurity
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Publisher(s): Oxford Academic
Publication Year: 2020

Attribution is central to the debate on how to respond to cyber intrusions. Increasingly, the policy challenge is not just to identify the perpetrator of a cyber intrusion, but to find the right policy response, including whether or not to go public with an attribution of responsibility. This journal article by CSS senior researcher Florian Egloff examines the use of public attribution as a political strategy for attaining specific political effects beyond the dyadic attacker–victim relationship, including shaping the operational and normative environment of cyber operations, with the potential to exert an independent deterrent effect.

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