CYBER-TERRORISM – HOW MUCH OF A THREAT IS IT? - Cyberwar-Netwar: Security in the Information Age - page 58

cyberspace and cyberwar and how to protect against it. There are eight nationalities in
this agency.
Handy : This is the right point of contact as this agency can use the opportunity to
welcome many representatives from companies, governments, etc. For your information
the director is from Turkey and the deputies are from France and the United States.
Kahraman : Have they come up with a common lexicon for the cybermedium, such as
what is an intrusion versus what could be constituted as a real attack? And are there
different levels of attack so that we can all talk the same language when we talk about the
cybermedium?
Mounier : I manage all the groups whatever the fields. Generally the people who
meet are real experts. Engineers from the forces are not allowed to attend or they could
lose time. It is a very technical perspective. It is a bottom-up way of thinking which
means that if the scientists wait for requirements from the military, they can wait for fifty
years! We imagine the threat, although we do not know who will be behind it, so we
work on megahertz for the moment. It is a specific way of thinking. That explains why
at times in NATO or in the countries there are difficulties establishing a link between the
real experts and the military or more political or strategy thinkers. There are however
studies whatever the field. For example, satellites are very important and there are
studies to see how we could replace satellites by higher UEV with solar energy hydrogen,
etc.