Analysis | Lawmakers wonder whether NATO is ready to robustly defend a cyber attack against one if its own

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Analysis: “It isn't only Russia’s military might that has some U.S. lawmakers and experts concerned about what’s next in the conflict with Ukraine. They’re also worried about a stealthy but possibly just as damaging enemy: cyber warfare.”

“We will not speculate on how serious a cyberattack would have to be in order to trigger a collective response,” a NATO officialor even conventional forces, depending on the nature of the attack,The updated policy, according to former U.S. ambassadors to NATO and experts who work closely with the organization, has come a long way since Russian-based attackers launchedover the removal of a Soviet war memorial in the small Baltic country in 2007.

As it currently stands, NATO leaders were deliberately ambiguous in defining what would qualify as an Article 5 attack when revising the group's cyber policy, “so as not to create a clear-cut threshold beneath which an opponent could operate freely,” saidBut there is some concern the ambiguity might muddle a potential response to a cyberattack.

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