Applying Resilience to Hybrid Threats

Abstract

Where hybrid threats represent potential disruptions to interlaced and interdependent systems within national and local governments, companies, and even individual households, methodologies are needed to help identify and understand 1) the source of the disruptions; 2) the system vulnerabilities they exploit with varying degrees of success; and 3) the potential for cascading harms to infrastructure, information systems, and social harmony and cohesion should a hybrid threat be successful. The need for such methodologies is particularly salient given the rise of cyberhacking, data theft, and fake news events triggered by state and nonstate actors. To address these challenges, a multifactorial, multitemporal approach is needed that allows for a whole -of -system view of how disruptions can percolate throughout the nested interconnections of hybrid -threat targets.