Remote assessment of countries’ cyber weapon capabilities

摘要: Today, a growing number of countries are incorporating cyber troops in their military and announcing intent to develop weapons. Assessing countries’ capabilities has important international policy implications. However, prior work on assessing such consists mainly case studies. These studies require substantial expertise effort thus only focus few “obvious countries”. In this paper, we socio-computational methodology populate the using real data order assess all world. We leverage fact that strength depends motivations latent abilities capabilities. socio-cultural model present metrics abilities. More specifically, adapt Friedkin capture factors motivate acquire then publicly available relations list have incorporated security units military. Subsequently, run obtain an estimate motivations. by examining research, existence institutions, information technology penetration these countries. combine motivation scores ability weapon capability scores: high, medium, low, very low. Our can be used non-experts who access data.