Too Connected To Fail: How Attackers Can Disrupt the Global Internet, Why It Matters, And What We Can Do About It

Citation
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Too Connected To Fail: How Attackers Can Disrupt the Global Internet, Why It Matters, And What We Can Do About It (May 2017) (full-text).

Overview
This paper examines attacks on core internet infrastructure through a lens of national security and nation state conflict. Most analyses have focused on the ability of non-state actors to use these tools to exact ransom or commit mischief. While these are real concerns, an examination of these attacks' applicability in nation state conflict has been missing.