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Cybercrime, Cyber Warfare, and Government Attitudes Towards Cybersecurity By Avishai Avivi, CISO, SafeBreach The face of cybersecurity is evolving. Cybercrime and its implications have grown into an inescapable fact of our daily lives, affecting everyone from the general consumer to Fortune 500 corporations. Cyberattacks have even begun to creep into the military sphere, with the threat of all-out cyber warfare looming large over conflicts across the globe. As a result, government attitudes towards cybersecurity have undergone a dramatic change. 2022 saw governments around the world creating—or at least more heavily debating — cybersecurity regulations to help secure enterprises and organizations from evolving cyber threats. The UK, for example, passed the Telecommunications Security Act, which implemented tougher security standards on Internet service providers (ISPs) to minimize breaches that could expose the private data of millions of consumers. And for the first time, the US-based Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) urged enterprises to choose a more proactive approach to defend themselves against cyberattacks, Cyber Defense eMagazine – August 2023 Edition 104 Copyright © 2023, Cyber Defense Magazine. All rights reserved worldwide.
ecommending automated continuous validation of security controls to protect against the constantly evolving threat landscape. With this in mind, it’s worth taking a deeper look at how cybercrime and cyber warfare have impacted government attitudes towards cybersecurity. What is cyber warfare? The term “cyber warfare” is itself contentious. There has been much debate surrounding its definition, with some experts even questioning whether we can truly distinguish between cyber warfare and traditional warfare. However, the RAND Corporation, an American global policy think tank, does give us a reasonable working definition. “Cyber warfare involves the actions by a nation-state or international organization to attack and attempt to damage another nation's computers or information networks through, for example, computer viruses or denial-of-service attacks.” Considering contemporary society’s near total reliance on computers and information networks, it’s easy to see why governments would want to shore up their defenses against potential cyberattacks, particularly at a time of geopolitical unrest. We have already seen glimpses of the havoc cyberattacks can wreak on a nation’s infrastructure. The most memorable of these perhaps was the Colonial Pipeline incident in 2021, which caused gasoline prices in the US to skyrocket, sparked a wave of panic buying, and resulted in President Joe Biden declaring a state of emergency. How are government attitudes changing? As previously noted, the prospect of cyber warfare has brought about important changes in the way governments approach cybersecurity. The US government has long emphasized the importance of collaboration between the private and public sector in protecting critical national infrastructure (CNI). However, the 2023 US National Cybersecurity Strategy puts a new, much stronger emphasis on regulation, expressing the need to: • Establish cybersecurity regulations to secure critical infrastructure • Harmonize and streamline new and existing regulations • Enable regulated entities to afford security This is in stark contrast to the 2018 strategy that only mentions regulation once in the entire forty page document, and in fact, goes so far as to criticize the idea. The two documents represent far more than the ideological differences of different administrations. They show how the federal government shifted its views on cybersecurity in response to significant, world-changing events. Cyber Defense eMagazine – August 2023 Edition 105 Copyright © 2023, Cyber Defense Magazine. All rights reserved worldwide.
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