FDD, Army Cyber Institute authors release paper calling for updated NATO cyber deterrence policy

The Ukraine crisis underscores the need for NATO allies including the United States to resolve differences over cybersecurity deterrence policy and the use of offensive cyber weapons, according to a paper by Erica Lonergan of the Army Cyber Institute and Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who cite unsettled issues such as operations that span other countries’ networks and the sharing of intelligence.

“A central challenge is that, at the political level, NATO allies lack consensus on...