Cyberterror Prospects and Implications Author:Mark Mitchell, Bill Nelson, Rodney Choi, Michael Iacobucci, Greg Gagnon This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A741393. The abstract provided by... more » the Pentagon follows: This white paper begins the process of articulating the demand-side of cyberterror. In so doing, we provide some guidance for setting intelligence- gathering strategy. For, armed with useful hypotheses about the conditions under which terrorists might seek to acquire or develop their capabilities for mass disruption, the intelligence community may be able to provide at least some degree of early warning of this emerging threat. And, based on the analysis that forms another part of our study, cyberterror is at best only an emerging threat, one far less dire than is suggested by others' assessments of this phenomenon.« less