CSIS Analysis: Cyber Warfare Shaping US-Israel-Iran Conflict Across Five Domains

CSIS published a comprehensive analysis of cyber warfare's role in the Iran conflict, documenting operations across five domains: offensive military cyber (CYBERCOM disruption of Iranian C2), Iranian retaliatory attacks (Handala/Stryker), proxy cyber operations, infrastructure targeting (ICS/SCADA), and information warfare. The analysis frames cyber as the primary asymmetric channel for Iranian retaliation given conventional military disadvantage and deteriorating kinetic capacity.