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Deterring cyber attacks: old problems, new solutions

  • Written by Joe Burton, Senior Lecturer, New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato
Deterring cyber attacks: old problems, new solutionsThe growing global market in cyber crime is projected to hit US$6 trillion by 2021.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA

As the investigation into Russia’s interference in the US election deepens, it is becoming obvious that the events in 2016 are just the tip of an iceberg.

Ever since the Russian cyber assault on Estonia in 2007, policymakers...