Deck 15: Cyber Conflict in the Age of Great Power Competition, Ryan C Maness, Rebecca Lorentz, and Brandon Valerian

Question 1

Which of the following is not part of Beijing's triadic approach to information control?

A) The Great Firewall
B) The Great Cannon
C) The Great Spear
D) The Social Credit System

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Cyber space includes which of the following?

A) The Internet
B) Cellular technologies
C) Space-based communications
D) All the options given are correct.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following is not one of the three layers of cyber space?

A) The physical layer
B) The syntactic layer
C) The psychological layer
D) The cognitive layer

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to chapter 16, adversarial attempts to influence social behaviour, including voting behaviour and security strategies, are most effective when they take advantage of…

A) attribution errors.
B) the availability heuristic.
C) confirmation bias.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 5

Multinational corporations do much of the work in addressing cyber violations and mitigating the impact of serious malware attacks and are legally allowed to 'hack back' against aggressors.

Question 6

Cyber war is defined in this chapter as 'the use of digital technologies in military interactions or military affairs in the realm of international relations'.

Question 7

As of 2021, the beginnings of a new strategy called 'layered cyber deterrence' were emerging in…

A) Russia.
B) China.
C) the United States.
D) North Korea.

Question 8

More than half of all cyber operations take the form of espionage or intelligence operations that focus on the collection of information from and the dissemination of messages to adversaries.

Question 9

China's cyber strategy against the United States and other democracies has largely consisted of digital espionage that is mainly intended to steal intellectual property.

Question 10

Online radicalization is, in part, a product of the human tendency towards confirmation bias exacerbated by social media algorithms which push belief-affirming and often highly biased content to users.