After the U.S. initiated a 'game changing' cyber strike on Iran's weapons systems, military warfare could increasingly look like a loss of connectivity — rather than a loss of life, says Splunk's cybersecurity expert Haiyan Song.
Days before the cyberattack, Trump had called off a conventional military assault against Iran, saying that the expected loss of life — estimated to be about 150 people — would have been disproportionate to the downing of the unmanned drone.ongoing cyber operations targeting each other.
Tensions have been escalating between Washington and Tehran, after the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran last year and began a policy of "maximum pressure" campaign aimed at ending its nuclear ambitions. Asked if she anticipated a ramping up of such cyberattacks as a means of warfare, Song, senior vice president and general manager of security markets at the multinational software company, was unequivocal.in Dalian, China. "I think this is really a new way for a lot of countries and nation states to really think about their competitiveness in the military world."
Such forms of cyberattacks are also growing in the business world, Song noted, highlighting phishing attacks and the infiltration of cloud technology as two particular areas of disruption. Song added that as inter-connectivity increases, "the vengeance, the frequency and the speed and the coverage" of such attacks will only grow.
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