Israel uncovers its cyber war policy secrets?

According to Israeli chief of military intelligence Amos Yadlin’s disclosure about the secret program, Israel is using its civilian technological advances to enhance cyberwarfare capabilities. However, he did not cite any specific targets for potential Israeli attacks. That was the first time that Yadlin, having overall responsibility for Israeli intelligence, had discussed cyberwarfare in public.

Yadlin said Israeli armed forces had the means to provide network security and launch cyber attacks of their own.

Using databases hacking for espionage or for carrying out sabotage through "malicious software" has been quietly weighed in Israel against fiends like Iran.

The senior spymaster listed vulnerability to hacking among national threats that also included the Iranian nuclear project, Syria and Islamist guerrillas along the Jewish state's borders.

Cyberwarfare teams niche deep within Israel's spy agencies, which have extensive experience in traditional sabotage techniques and are cloaked in official secrecy and censorship.

US Technolytics Institute, last year rated Israel the sixth-biggest "cyberwarfare threat," after China, Russia, Iran, France and "extremist/terrorist groups."

Noting that the US and UK are setting up cyberwarfare commands, Yadlin said Israel has its own "soldiers and officers" dedicated to this field.

But many experts believe the sites are too distant, dispersed and fortified for Israel's air force to take on alone. Washington has also voiced misgivings at the idea of open force.

"Cyberspace grants small countries and individuals a power that was heretofore the preserve of great states," Yadlin said.