BY ASHISH KUMAR SEN
APRIL 10, 2015
Cyber attack on Iran served as an ‘awakening’ for Tehran
From right: Andretta Towner, Senior Intelligence Analyst at CrowdStrike; JD Work, Research Director at the Cyber Conflict Documentation Project; and Barbara Slavin, Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center, participated in a discussion on “The Future of Iranian Cyber Threat” at the Atlantic Council April 8. Paul Kurtz (left), CEO of TruSTAR Technology, moderated the discussion.
Iran has vastly ramped up its cyber capabilities transforming itself from a “Tier 3” country to one that poses a significant global threat in the years following a massive cyber attack on its nuclear facilities, panelists said at the Atlantic Council April 8.
“Iran is definitely not a Tier 3 country any more,” said Andretta Towner, Senior Intelligence Analyst at CrowdStrike, a provider of security technology.
Over the past three years, Iran’s budget for cyber security has increased 1,200 percent, said Towner.
“They’re building this up as they would any other capability, but it seems that when we look forward we want to know are they building it up specifically to use it or are they just building this up in case they need it,” she added.
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