Last month's cyber security report by Kent University offered a startling insight into the challenges faced in combating escalating cyber threats.
The Locked Shields exercise in Tallinn is designed to anticipate what the next onslaught might look like: a complex scenario in which an imaginary country, Berylia, which looks very like Estonia, comes under a surprise attack by both strategically placed explosives and an escalating cyber assault focused on its most sensitive industry, a drone manufacturer.
"There is no doubt in my mind that the precursor to any future state-on-state conflict will be a campaign of escalating cyber-attacks, to break down our defences and test our resolve before the first shot is fired," he said in a speech on Tuesday at Microsoft's Future Decoded conference.
With the level of escalated cyber attacks and hacking last year, more so than ever before organizations realize security is an issue that needs to be addressed from the top down, and SIEM, he says, is one of the fastest growing segments within the security market.
Who thinks that once the US leaks some documents back on Putin that he'll suddenly be like 'oh, you got me, I guess we'll stop!' The more likely scenario is that this half-baked idea will escalate the cyber tensions rather than act as a deterrent.
In particular its focus is on critical infrastructure and the types of threats President Barack Obama mentioned in his State of the Union address last night when he announced he had signed an executive order to protect the nation's infrastructure from the escalating danger of cyber attacks, urging the U.S. Congress to pass a Cyber Security bill.
In today's world of sophisticated and escalating cyber-attacks against vulnerable data, we have entered new and dangerous ground within the Internet threat landscape.
A recent, blatant attack by the Chinese on sensitive Google networks--which followed other attacks on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pentagon--has led to escalating concern about our cyber security.
You can envisage a scenario where Russia, China and the US can see a mutual benefit in de-escalating cyber-attacks between the three of them, and also begin to collectively worry about cyberwarfare capabilities being developed in a range of smaller nation states.
A cyber arms race is getting under way, and it is escalating, as the tools needed to deploy weaponized cyber attacks spread around the world.
So can the fallout from pipeline cyber attacks, which are an escalating concern at high levels of government.
