We're talking threat actors. Tweets to follow.
Compares threats to the torpedo in Red October. Even if you miss the target, it's still in the water.
We often underestimate how much damage a 15 year old kid in the basement can do.
Lisa says actors have become more sophisticated, dangerous in their use of tools. Sense is the nation states have set themselves apart from transnational groups. Not just espionage but geopolitical escalation.
Seeing a commercial industry of private malware.
Commercial products (like gmail) are way more secure now than pre-Snowden.
But the hospital down the street hasn't gotten more sophisticated.
Monaco: Critical is important but also diffuse. Need a multi-stakeholder, multinational effort.
Prince: Sign up for @cloudflare. flip, but private companies can help. How do we build moats around every system and every device, not just one moat.
Should always respond, and impose costs, they don't have to be cyber costs. Could be financial, criminal.
Prince: Strategic threat from governments' temptation to impose regulation of tech industry. Data Localization, encryption backdoors for example.
A: Difference between platforms which are a modern newspaper with editorial standards vs. infrastructure level of the internet.
Who decides? In European legislation, they carve out infrastructure companies.
Monaco: difference between civilian agencies vs. .mil. worse than yellow in civilians. Problem of legacy systems.
Prince: Internet is a trust based system. You want to see the scariest attacks, look at crypto currencies.
Monaco: Asked for $300M in a revolving fund to replace legacy systems. Asked agencies to asked for their high value assets - datasets that would be dangerous in hands of an enemy.