To Attribute or Not To Attribute? Dealing with the Difficulties of Disaggregating between State and Non-State Funded Actors

• In Event: New Technologies and International Security

Brief Overview

This paper explores the difficulties in attributing cyberattacks to specific actors. We propose an alternative way to approach attribution through the use of preexisting cyberattack data from Valeriano & Manness combined with novel data.

Authors

• Erik Charles Beuck, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville

• Alexandra Infanzon Rotzer, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville