Description: The world is gearing up for cyberwar. The US Cyber Command became operational in November. Nato has enshrined cyber security among its new strategic priorities. The head of Britain's armed forces said recently that boosting cyber capability is now a huge priority for the UK. And we know China is already engaged in broad cyber espionage attacks against the west. So how can we control a burgeoning cyber arms race? We may already have seen early versions of cyberwars in Estonia and Georgia, possibly perpetrated by Russia. It's hard to know for certain, not only because such attacks are often impossible to trace, but because we have no clear definitions of what a cyberwar actually is. Do the 2007 attacks against Estonia, traced to a young Russian man living in Tallinn and no one else, count? What about a virus from an unknown origin, possibly targeted at an Iranian nuclear complex? Or espionage from within China, but not specifically directed by its government? To such questions one must add even more basic issues, like when a cyberwar is understood to have begun, and how it ends.
Tags: blackhat , 2011 , eu , cyberwar ,
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What a great topic. With so many assets relying on technology, I have a feeling cyberspace is going to become a whole new theater of war. Thanks for posting!
Bruce is an awesome speaker and @TechnologyFlow I agree, the next war will be in cyberspace and we shall be the warriors :)
This would make Vivek and SecurityTube the "Gun-Runners" of Cyber War :) as they are providing "arms" to all nations! ;D lol!
Now I'm waiting for Vivek's "Cyberwar Megaprimer for Hackers"!!! ;P
good presentation
I enjoyed that. It is good to see that not everyone predicts doom and gloom. A balanced and insightful view.
Hello man,
This is realy nice topic.
it make us more knowldgeble about this world of I.T
Thanks for provide this kind of video. :)
I'm not sure he hit the difference between having the FBI and the military handle cyber security exactly correctly - law enforce as often as not seems to look at the average citizen as a suspect as much as someone to be protected. The issue does raise some very interesting questions about how to define cyber "war" versus cyber crimes. What are the thoughts around here?
So Bush's cyber security adviser would call it "langsam krieg."