Saturday, June 18, 2016

What Is NATO's Cyberwar Strategy?



New York Times: As Russian Hackers Probe, NATO Has No Clear Cyberwar Strategy

TALLINN, Estonia — In the six months since part of Ukraine’s power grid came crashing down, turned off by highly sophisticated hackers, cyberspace allies of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia have been leaving their mark here in the Baltics and across the sea in Finland and Sweden.

Perhaps to discourage the traditionally neutral Finns and Swedes from growing closer to NATO — this past week NATO conducted a naval exercise from Finnish territory for the first time — hackers disabled the Finnish Ministry of Defense’s website. That was preceded by electronic espionage against a Dutch commission that had concluded that a Russian-made Buk missile brought down a Malaysian airliner two years ago, killing 298 people. And Germany’s intelligence agency, the BND, recently told American officials that it believed Russian hackers had been behind a cyberattack that destroyed a German steel mill.

Here in Estonia, where NATO maintains a center to explore the alliance’s cyberspace vulnerabilities and potential responses to attacks, there is a widespread recognition that the Western alliance has yet to develop a strategy to counter Russia’s increasingly aggressive action in cyberspace.

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More News On NATO's Cyber Strategy And Policy

Massive cyber attack could trigger NATO response: Stoltenberg -- Reuters
Severe cyber-attack could be a case for NATO action – Stoltenberg -- RT
Air, Land, Sea, Cyber: NATO Adds Cyber to Operation Areas -- AP
NATO Recognizes Cyberspace as New Frontier in Defense -- WSJ
NATO officially recognizes cyberspace as domain for war -- UPI
Cyberspace is officially a war zone – NATO -- Euronews
Estonian President: NATO Lacks Adequate Cyber Deterrence Means -- Sputnik
Russian state-sponsored hacking is on the rise but is Nato prepared for an attack? -- Jason Murdock, IBTimes

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