Today I will be reviewing the article “Is there a cyber security dilemma? ” by Carly E
Beckerman. This article goes over the rise of cyber attacks and tries to fully understand cyber
attacks. As governments are trying to understand cyber attacks and battle cyber attacks. Cyber
attacks are still on the rise and wreaking havoc in the cyber space. Also this article goes over the
dangers that cyber attacks can introduce to the world. Plus it shows what the higher ups are
trying to do to prevent a cyber attack happening.

While the title of this article is “Is there a cyber security dilemma?” This article states
that there is no dilemma. But it is more of higher ups and people trying to fully understand what
a cyber attack is and how to prohibit cyber attacks from happening. One aspect that higher ups
are trying to get a grasp of is if a cyber attack does happen to a state. They are trying to find out
if that cyber attack leads to a war between the two states. While this is currently a mixed answer
to that question. It is tough to say because cyber attacks are such a new and shiny threat no one
really knows unless it happens. But the best thing to do is prepare for the worst and that is what
the higher ups are currently doing while trying to understand cyber attacks.

One of the precautions that the higher ups are preparing for is a NCR framework. A NCR
framework ensures safety from cyber attacks. The article states “NCR allows for a layered
framework to interrogate the interplay between these different levels of analysis ” and “This
means that, in order to explain any foreign policy case or phenomena, NCR frameworks must
untangle the role played by systemic prompts and constraints but also pin-point which unit-level
variables are intervening within that structural context”. It seems like a NCR framework is a
great thing to have on your side while battling cyber attacks based on what the article says.

Source

https://academic.oup.com/cybersecurity/article/8/1/tyac012/6705410?searchresult=1