Geopolitical conflicts may result in cyberattacks publication

Today the growing prevalence of computing devices also growing in profile diversity (smart phones, tablets, routers, switches, firewalls, watches, smart TVs) are fueling a demand in the study of incident response. Many organizations do not know they have been hacked until a third party such as law enforcement informs them. For the last several weeks I've been researching for a project that informs the reader how to do incident response without acting with what one of the people I worked with "a chicken with its head chopped off". Here is a rough outline for this publication:
 
1 Introduction
a) Weigh the pros and cons of security
    i) finding the balance for usable security.
    ii) the only way to prevent a server from being hacked is to fill it up with concrete and dump it into the sea.

2) enablers
a) geopolitical conflicts in "hot zones"
  i) Baltic states
  ii) Middle East,
  iii)Africa
  ix) The Pacific including China and Korea.
 b) weighs out the positives and negatives of bitcoin.

3) Appendixes
  a) Network monitoring
   i) plans for combining OSSIM, ELK, zabbix, Mozdef, MongoDB, Fluentd, and icinga2 using jasper for user interface. This would be based on an earlier presentation "Efficient Network Triage with FOSS

Disclaimer: I do not pretend to know the origins of every conflict the world has faced but think this is a good launch point. Right now from what I've read, there is only the Norton In search of the most dangerous towns in America film, Micah-Sage Bolden's academia article and the World Economic Forum that approaches the geopolitical motives for threats to cybersecurity. For me the big difference between dnsbl, spamhaus, phishtank is that they are mostly based on coming up to solutions for single problem instances such as scams. This means that when their IPs are blocked they shift tactics because there is a lack of cooperation on the part of international law enforcement to take care of the root of the problems. This proposed project is to take a look at the role of geopolitics in the motivation of cybercrime so that we can enhance the online criminology or profiling of the security professionals.

I've been going to a lot of sources not commonly related to network security including the Economic World Form and 19th century Russian Literature sources. Here is a partial list:

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