 Today's hybrid style of warfare also calls for investments in information technologies.Increased reliance on computer systems has incentivized nations to push for increased efforts at managing large scale networks and having access to large scale data.New strategies of cyber and hybrid warfare includes, network attacks, media analysis, and media/ grass-roots campaigns on medias such as blog posts

In 2011, the US Defense Department declared cyberspace a new domain of warfare; since then DARPA has begun a research project known as "Project X" with the goal of creating new technologies that will enable the government to better understand and map the cyber territory.