Cyber warfare requirements and the need to accelerate

US Biden government is just hiring senior public sector professionals for the national cyber warfare unit leadership roles. It seems as the response for reacting to the recent major massive incident of Solarwinds being hacked, and using its software update to compromise a range of the customers that are being reported and under investigation right now, where Russia state being identified as the highly suspect for the cyber attack. The above case refers to the US context, you can imagine if a country like the US also will encounter this type of cyber warfare attack, the chance of those who invest less than what the US will typically invest, will be vulnerable to cyber warfare attack.

When cybersecurity is carried on the national state level, it is different than how you did in the corporation and enterprise level for merely staffing and setting up a red team. Cyber warfare is mandatory for every country regardless of the size, as modern warfare will not be really massive physical warfare, instead, it more likelihood for carry out to compromise your national infrastructure, install spying software, stealing national top sensitive information on federal, state and government link corporation, or specific target your country big corporation.

As such, it needs a holistic solution, no a product centric, as it needs a workflow, infrastructure, application, staffing with specialists to carry out national cyber warfare capability.

For the nation to purely buy firewall and network protection and SIEM alike is not the answer for the cyber warfare special unit and operation center.

For being a cyber warfare unit or center, you need capability at the minimum to conduct massive coordinated cyber attacks at national level, at the short period of time, said to bring down another nation’s infrastructure, hijacking and remote control or sniffing all the information for the national security purpose. It is only when you can possess that kind of capability then you can attack and counter attack to protect your own national cyber security space. It is not about pureplay investing in the range of vulnerability assessment tools or scanners, it is about being fundamentally capable to launch cyber warfare attack, not a pentesting.

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