There will always be intractable cyber threat actors. The challenge is to generate adaptive and effective responses that are infused with the ingenuity and persistence to match, meet, and defeat similarly adaptive and committed adversaries.
Author: Sharon L. Cardash
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As governments begin to think more carefully about companies’ use of measures to actively defend themselves, officials and decision-makers would do well to ground their deliberations in a broader transnational context.
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National governments may be loath to limit their own freedom of action, unless presented with a clear and convincing case that doing so will be in their best interests.
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The challenge for countries as well as companies is magnified by the nature of the cyber domain, where the advantage lies with the attacker. A defender can spend billions on cybersecurity and must succeed every time, whereas the attacker must only succeed once.
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In the ever-escalating compendium of cyber incidents and intrusions, an enormous US government breach–perhaps the largest ever–came to light earlier this month with news of a federal hack affecting “nearly every government agency.”This incident, which exploited a zero-day vulnerability (a previously unknown flaw in software), exposed and put at risk the personal information of four million […]
