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The nature of global conflict has changed, extending the battlefield beyond the physical realm and into the cyber domain. As physical barriers continue to fall and global tensions rise, the United States has recognized the need to master cyber combat, but so have its adversaries.
“Russia is a hurricane — you see them coming, you feel them. China is climate change. We are all starting to feel that now when you look at what’s happening in the world,” Kristina Walter, chief of the Cybersecurity Collaboration Center within the National Security Agency, said of today’s cyber threat landscape in her opening keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s GovCon International Summit on Thursday.
Today, Walter said, these competitors are leveraging the digital space to disrupt critical infrastructure, steal technologies from U.S. businesses, discover new cyber vulnerabilities in U.S. systems and conduct information warfare.
China, she said, is “unequivocally” the largest and most sophisticated threat in the cyber arena.
“We have seen over the last decade, while we were focused on counter-terrorism, that they have used cybersecurity as a means to an end that goes just below the threshold of war,” she continued.
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