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In a corner of the ballroom, a bank of large screens shows how the game is unfolding, a graphic portrayal of what a wired society looks like when it begins to break down in the face of a well-organised cyber offensive.
And this could prove problematic if the U.S. adopts a much more aggressive cyber offensive strategy.
"I am in favor of cyber offensive capabilities," Joseph Carson, chief security scientist at Thycotic, told VICE News.
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Three other governments that have waged cyber offensives against the U.S. ― Iran, North Korea and China ― are already subject to U.S. deterrents.
On this argument, Chinese officials want to threaten to expel important American firms so as to force the United States to reconsider its new cyber-offensive.
In China, the now infamous Unit 61398 of the People's Liberation Army was discovered, in 2013, to have been running an almost constant cyber-offensive against western companies and governments for seven years, from a 12-storey building in Shanghai; the offensive involved thousands of English-speaking hackers.
Malcolm Turnbull will make a security statement at noon addressing directly the sensitive subject of Australia's offensive cyber capabilities – while the minister assisting the prime minister on cyber security, Dan Tehan, will use a separate outing at the National Press Club to argue that, domestically, Australia needs to step up its preparedness against hacking and malicious cyber-attacks.
On cyber-hacking, it stopped short of calling for revising laws to allow "offensive cyber" - recovering stolen files or damaging a hacker's network, citing fears of damage to third parties.
Security firm FireEye said in its look-ahead at 2019 that China's reorganization of its offensive cyber operations units "will inform the growth and geographic expansion of Chinese cyber espionage activity through 2020 and beyond".
Investing in offensive cyber capabilities pays off for many nations.
"Our offensive cyber capabilities are far more advanced".
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