LONDON—Get your act together, folks. Cyber is going to change the way we fight and you’d best start thinking more in those terms.
For one man, this fact was good for business. General Sir Richard Barrons, former commander of the Joint Forces Command, told a packed room at the Advisen Cyber Risk Insights Conference here on March 7 that cyber is now the “tool of first resort” in conflict.
Cyber attacks are effective, and more importantly, they are easier and cheaper to carry out in order to “bend the will of an opponent” or “just bring life to a halt,” Barrons said to the captivated audience. As examples, Barrons mentioned North Korea’s attack on Sony, Russia’s attacks on Estonia and the Ukraine power grid, and the Dyn attack by a yet unknown perpetrator. The point is to “destabilize and weaken” an enemy,” he said.
Read more at http://www.advisenltd.com/2017/03/20/sobering-truth-cyber-tool-first-resort-conflict/
Chad Hemenway, A sobering truth: Cyber is ‘tool of first resort’ in conflict (March 20, 2017), available with subscription at Advisen Cyber Front Page News.
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