To assist the EU Member States in the important task of developing and maintaining a successful national cyber security strategy, ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) is developing a ´Good Practice Guide´.

For the first time an assessment, called the National Preparedness Report, commissioned by President Obama to assess the nation’s ability to respond to terrorist attacks and man-made and natural disasters, has found that state and local officials have the most confidence in their public health and medical services but are the most concerned about whether agencies can respond to cyber-attacks.

On April 26 2012 the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies held a joint hearing entitled "Iranian Cyber Threat to the U.S. Homeland".

La ricerca inquadra - definendola - la nozione di cyber-armi, sia sotto il profilo giuridico che strategico.

Syria has a long and distinguished record of cyber repression, earning a Reporters Without Borders "Enemy of the Internet" sobriquet three years running. And since the revolution started, with the technological assistance of Iran and the Lebanese Shiite militia Hizballah, the operational tempo of the pro-regime Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has increased dramatically.