Research and assess, in 12 or more pages, the global cyber threat landscape and determine which cyber threats are the most critical to the United States.
1) Identify the state actors and non-state actors that pose the greatest cyber threat to the United States and justify your selections.
2) Describe how the mix of state and non-state actors you identified should affect policy maker decision-making and policy development for critical infrastructure protection.
3) Describe and discuss the most threatening critical infrastructure cyberattack technologies, the cyberattack technologies operation, their potential for national and international disruption, and how each of the cyberattack technologies affect the threat landscape for critical infrastructure. Be sure to address the threat posed by Stuxnet-like cyberattacks.
4) Describe and discuss how combinations of the key cyberattack technologies (in concert and independently over time) affect the cyber threat from each type of actor.
5) Describe and discuss how virtualization and cloud computing technologies can be used to mitigate the threats you discuss.