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Part II: Mission and Institutional Perspectives
Pages 159-160

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... . Chapter 5 addresses federal law enforcement perspectives on cyberattack and cyberexploitation and considers how the private sector might view cyberattack as an element of its defensive posture.
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... Nevertheless, the committee believes there is value in setting forth a notional view of how these institutions might conceptualize the uses of cyberattack, the associated decision-making structures, and the infrastructure needed to support the use of cyberattack as an instrument in their toolkits. If nothing else, the availability of a notional view provides a framework against which to react and within which to pose questions about what might be missing.
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