A selective literature review on cyber counterintelligence

For state and non-state actors with sizable cyber interests, numerous breaches during this decade affirmed the necessity of having cyber counterintelligence (CCI) at the centre of cybersecurity efforts. Concurrent with the growing interest in CCI in corporate boardrooms and the corridors of governments, CCI is evolving from a field of academic enquiry to a distinctive academic sub-discipline. The growing body of CCI-focused literature clearly attests to this evolvement. A review of such literature not only has self-evident benefits for CCI’s academic progression, but is also of use to the increasing number of practitioners specialising or interested in this area. Attempting a comprehensive literature review within the confines of a conference paper will be over-ambitious and, in the case of CCI, pre-mature. Therefore, the aim with this paper is to submit a tentative, selective review on CCI literature. This tentative ‘bird’s eye view’ will hopefully provide a premise for progressing towards a more extensive and in-depth literature review.