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Broad economic warfare encompasses a host of actions aimed at damaging or threatening to damage the economy of an enemy or rival, with the aim of pressuring or weakening it in order to achieve strategic aims. Broad economic warfare encompasses standard economic warfare (such as sanctions), kinetic warfare, and cyber warfare against an enemy’s economy.

The cyber era has changed the realm of broad economic warfare. From an offensive perspective, cyber capabilities make it possible to damage the enemy economy both during wartime and between wars. Cyber warfare can intensify the damage caused to an enemy’s economy by economic sanctions and/or kinetic attacks. From a defensive perspective, cyber warfare poses another danger to the functioning of the economy. Although extreme scenarios of cyberattacks against the economies of countries have not occurred yet , it is necessary that the pace of building defenses for the state cyber system adapt to the rapidly accelerating establishment of the economy within the cybersphere.