I know: We’ll just isolate industrial control systems from the Internet.”
The Greatest Threat The World Has Ever Known
Cyber espionage has moved from spy novels to reality and now into the realm of politics, where God-forbid, it will be transformed into the greatest threat to mankind the world has ever known.
Which it may well be.
In the last couple of years, cyber espionage has suddenly become a political football with diplomats and elected officials from the United States, China, Germany and many other countries decrying such attacks from their adversaries. The issue is tricky, both technically and politically, and while there have been a number of potential solutions or responses forwarded—from return hacking to economic sanctions—most of my ilk in the security field say there may not actually be a solution to the problem.
A Problem that Cannot Be Solved
“This isn’t a problem that can be solved. Don’t think it has a solution,” Joel Brenner, former head of national counterintelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and former senior counsel at the NSA, said in a keynote speech at the Kaspersky Government Cybersecurity Forum in Washington, DC on a Tuesday in October, 2014. “We are economically interdependent with the Chinese in an extraordinary way.”
Brenner pointed out a number of factors that have created the current state of affairs, including the interconnection of virtually every conceivable asset and what he says has been the stasis in defensive thinking and operations in the last 10 years or so.
Walking Backward
“If you thought the state of cyber defense had become substantially better in the last ten years, you’d be wrong,” he said. “We’ ..
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