Global security matrix

This matrix ranked "threats (rows) by actors (columns). The more red the box,
the greater the threat."

Human, state, system, network, and global actors affected by warfare,
terrorism & crime, states at risk, resource conflict, pandemics,
environment, wmd, and infowar threats. This may break some of Jaquith's laws, but it is interesting nonetheless

For example, Infowar defined as:

Information warfare, aka 'infowar', is essentially a struggle of intelligence over force, of signs over weapons, of mind over body. Notorious for its many definitions, the meaning of infowar shifts with escalating phases of violence. In its most basic and material form, infowar is an adjunct of conventional war, in which command and control of the battlefield is augmented by computers, communications, and intelligence. At the next remove, infowar is a supplement of military violence, in which information technologies are used to further the defeat of a foreign opponent and the support of a domestic population. In its purest, most immaterial form, infowar is warring without war, an epistemic battle for reality in which opinions, beliefs, and decisions are created and destroyed by a contest of networked information and communication systems.

Unlike other threats in this matrix, an act of infowar can undermine the very notion of what constitutes a security threat through manipulation and reconstruction of the mediated projections of identity labels at the heart of so many contemporary conflicts. Furthermore, if the international system or state and other political group interests may be regarded as social constructions, then enemies can also be seen to, in part, create each other through mediated projections of danger, fear and even conflict itself.

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Infowar has a high "threat level" for network actors. Medium-High "threat level" for human and state actors, and Medium "threat level" for global and system actors.

The high "threat level" for network actors is due to:

InfoWar targets networks of information, and states may respond by limiting the capacity and freedom of all networks. Linked to cyberterrorism, information warfare carried out against networks can allow assailants to access classified military information and exploit the connections within a network to facilitate a destructive agenda. Censorship by individual states, in an effort to curb this type of information-network exploitation, can hurt the development of beneficial networks and the processes dependent upon proper function of transnational networks.

Rankings aside, What is interesting about this approach is it cross references individual threats and actors. Next month in IEEE Security & Privacy, we will have an article on Misuse Case modeling which may be used as an artifact in this area.