Editing Computer security (section)

==Modern warfare==
{{Main|Cyberwarfare}}

There is growing concern that cyberspace will become the next theater of warfare. As Mark Clayton from ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'' wrote in a 2015 article titled "The New Cyber Arms Race":

{{blockquote|In the future, wars will not just be fought by soldiers with guns or with planes that drop bombs. They will also be fought with the click of a mouse a half a world away that unleashes carefully weaponized computer programs that disrupt or destroy critical industries like utilities, transportation, communications, and energy. Such attacks could also disable military networks that control the movement of troops, the path of jet fighters, the command and control of warships.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Clayton |first1=Mark |title=The new cyber arms race |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2011/0307/The-new-cyber-arms-race |journal=The Christian Science Monitor |access-date=16 April 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416090310/http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2011/0307/The-new-cyber-arms-race |archive-date=16 April 2015 |df=dmy-all |date=2011-03-07 }}</ref>}}

This has led to new terms such as ''cyberwarfare'' and ''[[cyberterrorism]]''. The [[United States Cyber Command]] was created in 2009<ref>{{Cite news |author=Nakashima, Ellen |date=13 September 2016 |title=Obama to be urged to split cyberwar command from NSA |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-to-be-urged-to-split-cyberwar-command-from-the-nsa/2016/09/12/0ad09a22-788f-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20161012083815/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-to-be-urged-to-split-cyberwar-command-from-the-nsa/2016/09/12/0ad09a22-788f-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html |archive-date=12 October 2016 |access-date=15 June 2017 }}</ref> and many other countries [[Cyberwarfare#Cyber activities by nation|have similar forces]].

There are a few critical voices that question whether cybersecurity is as significant a threat as it is made out to be.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Overland|first=Indra|date=1 March 2019|title=The geopolitics of renewable energy: Debunking four emerging myths|journal=Energy Research & Social Science|volume=49|pages=36–40|doi=10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.018|issn=2214-6296|doi-access=free|bibcode=2019ERSS...49...36O |hdl=11250/2579292|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Maness|first1=Ryan C.|last2=Valeriano|first2=Brandon|date=11 June 2018|title=How We Stopped Worrying about Cyber Doom and Started Collecting Data|journal=Politics and Governance|language=en|volume=6|issue=2|pages=49–60|doi=10.17645/pag.v6i2.1368|issn=2183-2463|doi-access=free|hdl=10945/60589|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Maness|first1=Ryan C.|last2=Valeriano|first2=Brandon|s2cid=146145942|date=25 March 2015|title=The Impact of Cyber Conflict on International Interactions|journal=Armed Forces & Society|language=en-US|volume=42|issue=2|pages=301–323|doi=10.1177/0095327x15572997|issn=0095-327X}}</ref>