READER LETTER | Our intelligence institutions are hopelessly outmatched by formidable digital foes whose coded skills in cyber warfare have the capability to devastate nation states and industrial giants.
Cyber security risks occur when a threat exploits a vulnerability, leading to negative consequences.
States no longer need to launch missiles to attack an adversary. A new weapon has been introduced into the world’s arsenal, and that sightless weapon has no boundaries or rules, costs little and has monstrous potential. The weapon uses digital codes as its ammo to devastate economies and to penetrate any system that uses software. Asymmetrical cyber war is the new nuclear weapon of the 21st century. The entire world needs to undergo a paradigm shift on how it views the cyber domain. The global economy is dependent on cyber trade routes.
These routes are vulnerable to sustained attacks without warning. Signals and information can be intercepted, interrupted and exploited. The once secure nuclear strike systems of the world can also be tampered with, triggering an unintended nuclear catastrophe. The cyber domain has been created in a short time and has not had the same level of security as other battle domains. Unless we are digitally armed and prepared, coded warfare will overwhelm humanity.
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