The Challenges of Using Cyber Operations

I think the inability to put cyber in existing bins and analogies was a real difficulty as senior policymakers were trying to figure out what was the right way to use cyber operations. I believe that cyber was escalatory, highly risky, and therefore should be viewed somewhat like nuclear weapons. The only way in the end, we were able to change minds, which was interesting to me. And it was funny. We were uncomfortable in many ways given that strategic concern. When we started talking about let's use the CT fight as a bit of a laboratory to highlight what we can and cannot do," he said.