In January 2017, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a highly unusual public report outlining the Russian state-sponsored cyberenabled campaign to distract, disrupt, and skew the 2016 U.S. elections. [1] This latest influence campaign and continuing activities in both the U.S. and other Western countries are increasingly acknowledged as part of a broader, ambitious Russian strategy of strategic competition to restore its European sphere of influence, and erode other countries’ subscription to the Western liberal economic and political order. [2]
Strategic Blind-Spots on Cyber Threats, Vectors and Campaigns*