Research Paper: Innovations in International Cyber Support: Comparing Approaches and Mechanisms for Cyber Capability Support

This paper forms part of the 16th International Conference on Cyber Conflict: Over the Horizon (May 2024). This paper proposes the concept of international cyber capability support (CCS) to describe a policy area covering the direct provision of cyber security products and services, including the deployment of rapid response teams, with immediate operational impacts intended to advance short-to-medium term objectives. This paper examines illustrative case studies of national cyber crises demonstrating the need for CCS deployment, emerging approaches to providing CCS, and the considerations which should inform how CCS is operationalized.