Foreword

This is the second time that the CyCon conference devotes its attention to advanced methods of cyber confl ict and their strategic and policy implications. In 2013 we discussed the role and methods of automated cyber defense. We looked at automation not only as an enabling technological device or method that allowed us to increase the effectiveness and sophistication of cyber defensive and offensive actions, but also as a social factor which borders with the political, legal, moral and ethical framework of modern societies. All these factors remain in place as we move to the territory of Active Cyber Defense (ACD), the focus of CyCon 2014.