The Future of Cybersecurity and Trends in Technological Risk: Impacts for U.S. Foreign Policy and Politics

Global Internet access expanded rapidly since the Internet's invention, going from 14 million users in 1993 to over 3.8 billion today. Yet access expanded without a commensurate understanding of the Internet's security and political risks. Today criminal groups and nation-states use cyberspace operations to threaten national and economic security, from attacks on the Bangladesh Central Bank to Russia's operations against the 2016 U.S. presidential election.