Greg Conti, Director of Security Research, IronNet Cybersecurity
How do people with an army-sized cyber force think about cyber operations? One thing is for sure, it is not how we grew up thinking about traditional information security. Information security, while important, fails to capture the scale, audacity, capabilities, and resources of government-backed cyber operations.
Over the past 10 years we have seen the rise of massive nation-state cyber forces and we’ve felt the impact, from catastrophic data spills to destructive cyber attacks to influence on the U.S. presidential election. Like it or not, cyber conflict is raging now and is likely to get worse before it gets better.
From Clausewitz and Jomini to the present, militaries have learned how to fight at scale on the physical battlefield. For example, the United States fielded and coordinated actions of almost 100 divisions of 10,000-15,000 people each to fight around the globe in World War II. Militaries are now organizing, training, and equipping forces and learning to fight at scale in cyberspace. What we’ve experienced so far is only a first taste.
In this talk we will look at time-tested military techniques and study how they may be used to support offensive and defensive cyber operations. We’ll focus on key examples: effects based operations, targeting, deception, center of gravity analysis, command and control, and cyber-enabled information operations, and we’ll provide pointers to many more.
These insights will help prepare network defenders and security researchers for what is coming, help you to better understand the mindset of those attacking you, and convince you we aren’t thinking big enough.
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