Usually the good news stories from/about Commonwealth gov agencies at this time of year are not about image, and aren't really news, or even necessarily deterrence. They're about having a bid for more money in the next Budget.
I started your A Girl In Time, and after the first 20 minutes, I knew I had to contact you. Want some jucy Apple stories? I guess I could post them here, if ok.
One of the most interesting (to me) ideas, is how do you respond to cyber attacks that cause real world harm to your citizens? How much harm is allowed before you respond with bullets and missiles?
Is it a train crash? What about thousands of suddenly impoverished citizens? Where is the line?
One day, a state actor is going to do something and someone is going to go fully kinetic, as you say.
That's a very live debate among natsec people, I've heard. By some ways of defining it you could plausibly claim that some of the things the Chinese government has done are over that line, ie are acts of war. The pollies seem a long way behind on the debate. If some foreign power were to plant bombs in all your power stations, you'd have confidence your government would take a keen interest in preventing that, but if they plant backdoors in the electronic control systems they seem much less on the ball.
"Having studied the Barnaul gang, the directorate decided to strike when the five Russians were expected to be out drinking, making it harder for them to respond. It deleted their stolen data and in coordinated announcements with the US and UK on Wednesday, revealed the Russian men’s identity and put sanctions on them." I don't know I can picture a covert inflitration team (and yes I imagine you can have a non-covert inflitration team say someone dressed as janitors or does that still count as covert?) and they plant an EMP in the server farm that wipes out the data simultaneously a nudged defunct European satellite destroys the remote cloud satellite that stores the back ups.
Usually the good news stories from/about Commonwealth gov agencies at this time of year are not about image, and aren't really news, or even necessarily deterrence. They're about having a bid for more money in the next Budget.
I started your A Girl In Time, and after the first 20 minutes, I knew I had to contact you. Want some jucy Apple stories? I guess I could post them here, if ok.
One of the most interesting (to me) ideas, is how do you respond to cyber attacks that cause real world harm to your citizens? How much harm is allowed before you respond with bullets and missiles?
Is it a train crash? What about thousands of suddenly impoverished citizens? Where is the line?
One day, a state actor is going to do something and someone is going to go fully kinetic, as you say.
That's a very live debate among natsec people, I've heard. By some ways of defining it you could plausibly claim that some of the things the Chinese government has done are over that line, ie are acts of war. The pollies seem a long way behind on the debate. If some foreign power were to plant bombs in all your power stations, you'd have confidence your government would take a keen interest in preventing that, but if they plant backdoors in the electronic control systems they seem much less on the ball.
Somehow wiping a bunch of servers doesn’t capture the imagination as much as blowing stuff up - ala Mythbusters.
But would this be a romp for Bond, Bourne, Eggsy/Kingsman, Johnny English, or other?
"Having studied the Barnaul gang, the directorate decided to strike when the five Russians were expected to be out drinking, making it harder for them to respond. It deleted their stolen data and in coordinated announcements with the US and UK on Wednesday, revealed the Russian men’s identity and put sanctions on them." I don't know I can picture a covert inflitration team (and yes I imagine you can have a non-covert inflitration team say someone dressed as janitors or does that still count as covert?) and they plant an EMP in the server farm that wipes out the data simultaneously a nudged defunct European satellite destroys the remote cloud satellite that stores the back ups.