Thread by @jseldin

"Agility, speed & unity of effort matter" - @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA Gen. Paul Nakasone to @AUSAorg on lessons learned from #Election2020

NEW: "Our #1 goal, our #1 objective at the National Security Agency & US Cyber Command - a safe, secure & legitimate 2020 election" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA

"We're going to generate insights about our adversaries, much like 2018" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA "We're going to know our adversaries better than they know themselves"

re #Election2020 security #Russia #China #Iran #DPRK

Warning from US @US_CYBERCOM to anyone trying to mess w/#Election2020

"We're gonna act" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA Gen Nakasone "We're gonna act when we see adversaries attempting to interfere in our elections"

#COVID19 & virtual communications

"We're working w/a ppltn that is very very comfortable operating in this type of space" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA "The fact that every single day I can touch any part of a worldwide global enterprise &be able to do it virtually-tremendously powerful"

US seeing a "rise in capacity" from #Russia #China #NorthKorea #Iran in #cyber

"We've seen the growth in terms of programs across all of those major adversaries" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA, adding "We've also seen a rise in capability"

"The advantages that we have are often not talked about" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA "First of all, a series of partnerships w/a number of different allies that our adversaries can never match"

Also, "a very very capable cyber force" that is "really battle tested"

"We have to raise the bar" for #cybersecurity, per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA "Right now, our adeversaries have far too much success, being able to get in with the most simplest of activities"

"We've allowed our adversaries to literally use the most simple techniques to enter our networks, to challenge our data or to create further havoc" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA

Those behaviors giving US adversaries an easy time in #cyber, per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA: "Clicking on links that lead to malicious software, not patching our operating systems, not being wise to ensure that we've got proper passwords or 2-factor authentication"

Addressing those behaviors "would eliminate roughly 90 percent of the threats that we're seeing today" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA

"We need to raise that bar" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA "We need to make sure our adversaries are having to use their more sophisticated techniques because today they're not"

re #Russia #China #Iran #NorthKorea in #cyber space