The Great Game is just begun for the New Year. GOD knows what the Big Picture will bring in 2015
While none of this will come as a surprise to experts in the field, the aim of the Axelrod-Iliev paper seems to be to help policy-level people understand the cyber-attack landscape with a minimum of technical grasp.
Understanding it is one thing .... being able to do anything at all to mitigate or steer a cyber-attack, is something completely different, and in an increasingly well connected global metadatabase, a vector/sector which is growing with/in intelligence at a prodigious, and most likely, uncatchable rate.