so my name is sean lawson. i'm a professor in the department of communication at the university of utah. and so really, my goal for this presentation will be to provide a broad overview of cyber conflict with an eye toward the challenges that nato faces in trying to address it. so i'll begin, because i assume not every one here focuses their attention on issues of cyber conflict. i'll begin with definitions and by laying out a typology. second i've provide a historical overview. third, i'll provide a preef overview of nato's current stance, including relative organizations, principles and activities that nato is carrying out. and finely i'll end by highlighting a few of the challenges that nato faces in its attempts to respond to the advent of cyber conflict. so let's begin with that typology. i'll present these in the order of least to most damaging, which also happens to be the order of most common to least common. so the first is simply just cyber act vism. it allows activists to collect and public informati

. >> thank you, geneve pic will go ahead and move right along to sean lawson. is going to bring shoppers could issues into this conversation. then we can open it up for two and a so get your questions ready. >> so minor sean lawson. i'm a professor in the department of communication at the university of utah. and so, really my goal for this presentation will be to provide a broad overview of cyber conflict with an eye towards the challenges that nato faces in trying to address it. so i will begin because i said that not everyone here focuses all of their attention all of the time on issues of cyber conflict. i'll begin with some definitions. and by laying out cyber conflict homicide oh provide a brief historic overview of for instances in which nato has experienced cyber conflict in one form or another. third, i'll provide a brief overview of nato's current policy stance in relation to cyber conflict, including relevant organizations, principles and activities that nato is carrying out. and, finally, i'll end by highlighting just a few of the challenges that na

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