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Trends in Security Information
The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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State sponsored actors
A state sponsored actor is a non-state actor that conducts activities or actions on behalf of a state, such as a contracted hacker or company. Employing non-state actors has the benefit for a state that the conduct of these actors is difficult to attribute to that state. The legal threshold for attribution is higher for non-state actors than for state organs. As a consequence, a state can choose to employ a non-state actor to conduct, for example, a cyber-attack and minimise the chance of being confronted with sanctions or countermeasures.
Related Keywords: state responsibility.
A state sponsored actor is a non-state actor that conducts activities or actions on behalf of a state, such as a contracted hacker or company. Employing non-state actors has the benefit for a state that the conduct of these actors is difficult to attribute to that state. The legal threshold for attribution is higher for non-state actors than for state organs. As a consequence, a state can choose to employ a non-state actor to conduct, for example, a cyber-attack and minimise the chance of being confronted with sanctions or countermeasures.
Related Keywords: state responsibility.
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