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State Cyber Warfare

Attacks on grids, finance, and comms as an act of war. The same local-first resilience answers it.

ScopeInternationalCauseGeopoliticalDriven bySystemicImpactModerateLikelihoodUnlikely
State Cyber Warfare
Why it matters

What State Cyber Warfare would mean for you

Three numbers decide how important State Cyber Warfare is to your preparedness planning. Impact and Likelihood are general baselines. Vulnerability depends on how prepared you are for this threat.

ImpactModerate6/9
NegligibleCatastrophic

Attacks on grids, finance, and comms as an act of war show up as outages - disruptive more than directly deadly - a moderate Impact met with outage resilience.

LikelihoodUnlikely4/9
RareFrequent

Increasingly likely as a tool of statecraft, which puts the Likelihood mid-scale.

VulnerabilityNot rated
NegligibleCatastrophic

This number is yours. It measures how hard State Cyber Warfare would actually hit your household given what you already have in place. Rate it in Threat Planning — then all three multiply into your personal threat rating.

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Preparing for State Cyber Warfare

Concrete moves that lower your Vulnerability. Add any of them and we'll track it as an action on your threat list.

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Prepare as for an extended utility outage.
Keep cash and offline records.
Back up data and keep paper copies of essentials.
Keep battery-backed comms and information sources.
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Articles on State Cyber Warfare

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Tools for State Cyber Warfare

Make State Cyber Warfare part of your plan

Add it to your personal threat list, score it for your own household, or pull the real hazard data for your county.