Ulisa: Uluslararası Çalışmalar Dergisi

Yazarlar: Ali Burak DARICILI

Konular:Siyasi Bilimler

Anahtar Kelimeler:The United States of America,The Russian Federation,Cyber Security,Cyber Attack

Özet: The United States of America (USA) and the Russian Federation (RF) are the most important global cyber forces that dominate cyber space today. The details of the system and planning of the cyber powers of the two states are based on the technological innovations derived from the military competition between the US and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. As a result of the rapid development of networking technologies as well as the commercialization and widespread use of the internet by the 1990s, the USA has rapidly developed national and international cyber security strategies and has reached today's strong cyberspace capacity. In the years after 2000, RF was able to have an effective cyber capacity including espionage, counter/espionage, disinformation, electronic war capabilities, psychological warfare and propaganda and cyber attack. The cyber struggle between the two states has been moved to a new dimension with assertions that e-mails of some of the politics and consultants involved in RF's National Committee for the Democratic Party were provided by cyber attack methods organized by RF and leaked some of these emails to the public, thus actively manipulating the US electoral process in favor of other presidential candidate Donald Trump in the direction of RF’s national interests. In this context, the event defined as “Democratic Party hacking scandal” in the literature will be analyzed together with the mutually alleged cyber attacks happened between USA and RF within the context of the historical development of the cyber security strategies of two states in our study.

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