This is the second in a three-part series on North Korea’s cyber-capabilities by an expert in the field. To read the first, click here and click here to read the third.

It’s clear from the Sony attack’s fallout, and the responses from world leaders and the cyber-experts community, that far a greater impact was achieved than the regime, or its cyber command & control (C2), could have imagined. It was also notable that its denials of state involvement and sponsorship of the Sony attack seemed to quiet down quite quickly once the impact reverberated