When it comes to cyber threats, do we really need any more surprises?
Of course not, but we should expect them.
This is what Congress heard this week in the 2018 "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community," when Daniel Coats testified. He is the Director of National Intelligence.
"The potential for surprise in the cyber realm will increase in the next year and beyond as billions more digital devices are connected—with relatively little built-in security—and both nation states and malign actors become more emboldened and better equipped in the use of increasingly widespread cyber toolkits."
And when it comes to nation states, more of them than ever before are capable of launching cyber attacks:
Coats testified that Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China are the biggest cyber threats. Our interview with the former Director of Operations at U.S. Cyber Command explains why:
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