{"id":7479,"date":"2015-04-22T06:36:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T11:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7479"},"modified":"2015-04-22T06:36:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T11:36:34","slug":"the-cyber-blitzkrieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7479","title":{"rendered":"The cyber blitzkrieg"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cyber blitzkrieg<\/a><\/h3>\n

The forces of the perfect storm of climate change, energy tsunamis and global economic bubbles in collision are complex and varied; each with their own levels of threat and urgency. In this milieu, it\u2019s easy to over-fixate on the more visible threats and downplay the others.<\/p>\n

Case in point: The Iranian nuclear showdown has dominated the news and polarized the geopolitical world. While frightening, it has overshadowed another \u201creal-time\u201d threat of growing proportions: cyber-warfare and cyber-security.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a new threat. Our personal computers are barraged with viral assaults. The cyber firewalls of such giants as J.P. Morgan, Target, Home Depot, SONY and Anthem Health are regularly penetrated \u2013 with the loss of sensitive information on tens of millions of Americans at a crack.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s bad enough when hackers and criminals do their dirty deeds; it\u2019s downright dangerous when nation states organize and deploy their cyber-forces against other nations in a harmful manner.<\/p>\n

Cyber-warfare has escalated into a new global battlefield with ill-defined \u201crules of the road.\u201d The barriers to entry are low, and serious cyber-attacks can now be conducted by tiny nations and terrorist groups against any nation or company. It\u2019s a perfect example of using\u00a0asymmetric<\/em>\u00a0warfare<\/em>\u00a0to attack a far greater force using unconventional means. Though cyber forensics are improving, identifying the source of an attack is almost as difficult as deciding on a response.<\/p>\n

James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, recently reported to congress that \u201cCyber threats to U.S. national and economic security are increasing in frequency, scale, sophistication, and severity of impact.\u201d He went on to identify Russia as one of the most sophisticated cyber adversaries and that cyber threats, in general, would be more of an \u201congoing series of low-to-moderate level of cyberattacks from a variety of sources over time\u2026\u201d\u00a0 One can only imagine what he might say about this in a classified briefing.<\/p>\n

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The cyber blitzkrieg The forces of the perfect storm of climate change, energy tsunamis and global economic bubbles in collision are complex and varied; each with their own levels of threat and urgency. In this milieu, it\u2019s easy to over-fixate on the more visible threats and downplay the others. Case in point: The Iranian nuclear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2335,4884,243,441,4885,577,712,2004,862],"class_list":["post-7479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cyber-warfare","tag-cyberwarfare","tag-economic-security","tag-iran","tag-james-clapper","tag-nsa","tag-security","tag-sony","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7480,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions\/7480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}