comparison with conventional conflicts --- In conventional affairs, besides armed conflicts/wars, states also use intelligence, espionage and surveillance activities (with airplanes, drones and other means). Similar to that, in cyberspace the nature of the state sponsored cyber-conflict or cyber-incident can have various degrees/manifestations (gathering evidence, espionage, surveillance or more serious - as causing physical damage to CI) .

Source author: Vladimir Nikolov vladimir984@yahoo.com