Nakasone: Cold War-style deterrence ‘does not comport to cyberspace’
"Strategic competition is alive and well in cyberspace, and we're doing it every day with persistent engagement," the CYBERCOM and NSA leader said.
Russian ‘SolarWinds’ Hackers Launch New Attack On IT Supply Chain, Microsoft Says
New campaign is evidence "Russia is trying to gain long-term, systematic access to a variety of points in the technology supply chain and establish a mechanism for surveilling — now or in the future — targets of interest to the Russian government," researchers say.
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Why Bigger Fences Aren’t Enough in the Age of Drones
Traditional thinking about how to protect facilities must adapt to new threats such as drones or downstream attacks.
A ‘Solarium’ For Hacking: Sen. King Launches Cyber Strategy Panel
With members from Congress, the executive branch, and the private sector, the commission plans to issue a final report by year's end.
US Urges ‘Like-Minded’ Countries To Collaborate On Cyber Deterrence
“We have a saying in Asia...When the elephants fight, the ants get smashed.”
Clapper Vs. Trump: Intel Agencies ‘Even More Resolute’ That Russia Meddled In Elections
WASHINGTON: The day before intelligence analysts brief a skeptical Donald Trump on Russian interference with the 2016 elections, the Director of National Intelligence told supportive senators that he had only grown more confident the Kremlin was the culprit. DNI James Clapper not only repeated his assessment that Russia had tried to manipulate the election with […]
DNI, NSA Seek Offensive Cyber Clarity; OPM Not An ‘Attack’
WASHINGTON: No one really knows what they’re doing in cyberspace: It’s all too new and it changes too fast. So it was refreshing — if unnerving — for two top intelligence officials to admit this morning that the US government’s lack of clarity makes it more difficult both to deter adversaries’ cyber operations and to conduct […]
Building logistics networks for contested environments
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NATO Hews To Strategic Ambiguity On Cyber Deterrence
WASHINGTON: NATO is now taking cyber threats as seriously as the Russian tanks and nuclear weapons it was created to deter. But the alliance has a long way to go just to shore up its own network defenses, and it explicitly eschews any role on the offense. NATO has not even written a formal policy […]
Defense, Deterrence Can Work In Cyberspace, But Don’t Forget Offense
CAPITOL HILL: Maybe cyberspace isn’t as fragile as it’s made out to be. “Relax, Chicken Little, the sky isn’t falling,” said Columbia professor Abraham Wagner. “Protection ultimately is easier than penetration.” Wagner’s argument reverses the conventional wisdom that the attacker always has the advantage online. A forthcoming study by the Cyber Conflict Studies Association, for […]
Deterrence Doesn’t Work in Cyberspace: CCSA
WASHINGTON: Cyberspace is an inherently unstable realm where traditional strategic concepts of deterrence and defense break down – and it’s the United States that has the most to lose from that instability, warns a forthcoming report from the Cyber Conflict Studies Association. “The Cyber Conflict Studies Association’s two-year study has lead to the sobering conclusion […]