A leading cyber warfare strategy according to the evolution of cyber technology after the fourth industrial revolution

Abstract

In February 2018, the US foreign ministry reported that the United States has made massive preparations for a massive cyber-attack on North Korea over the past six months. Although it is focused on the preemptive strike on the North Korea, which is called the "Kofi Operation" of the United States, the Donald Trump administration's first attack on the North Korean will be a cyber-operation, not a military attack, the media said [1]. The United States is developing from the concept of defensive cyber operations to the concept of offensive cyber operations for effective cyber warfare of cyber command. The other development countries as well as the United States are shifting the concept of cyber operation from defensive concepts to offensive or preemptive attacks. Recently, developed countries have shifted cyber warfare strategy from a defensive strategy to offensive strategy. If innovative science technologies and cutting-edge information & communication technologies (ICT) are applied to cyber battlefield, cyber-assets cannot be effectively protected by defensive operations anymore.