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Military and security strategists see the conflicts of the future taking place in the “grey zone”, a space between peace and war.
This is a world of sub-threshold conflicts, deniable actors, and hybrid warfare.
But the grey zone is not clear cut. It blends armed force, including by non-state actors and proxies, with the political, social and economic levers of power. These tools include disinformation, social media manipulation, emerging technologies and cyber threats.
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In fact, cyber is in some ways the ideal tool for the grey zone: flexible, low cost and hard to attribute.
But as a result, grey zone threats are equally relevant to businesses as it is to military and government organisations.
Security and defence company QinetiQ recently authored a report, Confidence in Chaos, which breaks down these threats. Security Insights’ editor Stephen Pritchard invited QinetiQ’s Mike Sewart to discuss the report’s findings.